GaryBaumgarten
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Title
- Director of News and Programming
- Company
- Paltalk.com
- Bio
- Award winning journalist Gary Baumgarten hosts the News Talk Online show on Paltalk.com. He asks critical questions, and invites people from all around the world to talk directly to his newsmaker guests using Paltalk's voice over IP technology.
Gary came to Paltalk as director of news and programming from CNN where he was the radio bureau chief and correspondent in New York for a decade, where he covered, among other things, the 9/11 attacks in New York and Hurricane Katrina. He was previously reporter and assistant news director at CBS all news radio station WWJ in Detroit. Prior to that he was managing editor at Detroit Radio News Service and a reporter for the Jackson (MI) Citizen-Patriot, the Detroit News and a number of weekly newspapers.
Paltalk is the largest multimedia interactive program on the Internet with more than 4 million unique users. News Talk Online is also syndicated by CRN Digital Talk Radio to cable systems serving an additional 12 million households.
MY RECENT POSTS
- 2 contrasting views of
Christmas gifts
December 24, 2011 03:10PM - 2 amazing women and
remembering John Lennon
December 09, 2011 12:06PM - 2 amazing women and
remembering John Lennon
December 09, 2011 12:05PM - Facebook the new town crier?
December 07, 2011 07:40PM - An unanswered ethical question
November 28, 2011 11:06PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Jan, the possessive "my"
was not "my" statement. It
was
that…”
October 02, 2011 08:30AM - “No Mark, I wasn't
suggesting you doubted the
veracity of my
post. I was
wondering…”
August 10, 2011 07:25AM - “Mark, are you
questioning the veracity
because it's the LA
Times? Not
sure I unde…”
August 10, 2011 07:04AM - “You think folks who are
unemployed should be paying
too,
Deborah?
It's
called INCO…”
August 09, 2011 08:38PM - “You have knowledge of
the Israelis arresting the kin
of
reporters who they want
t…”
August 09, 2011 12:03PM
GaryBaumgarten's Links
Photo by a c o r n/Flickr
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
I hung around Zuccotti Park again on Thursday afternoon trying to get a handle on the direction the Occupy Wall Street movement is going. My conclusion: it’s still, impossible to say.
I met so many people, there… Read full post »
Non-stop organizing at Zuccotti Park. Photo by Paul Hodara
There is no identifiable leadership. There is are no stated goals.
Detractors remind us of this constantly. Facts that prove the
Occupy Wall Street movement is doomed to failure. That the lack of
focus is its greatest weakness.
Perhaps… Read full post »
The Wall Street Journal quotes a number of economists who are saying a recession is in the offing.
Did we really need this panel of experts to tell us what we already know?
This comes as no news to those who have been unemployed. Out of work for days, months, years.
Now there’s… Read full post »
John Morgan photo
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
The Los Angeles times reports that 1,470 millionaires paid no taxes in 2009.
How did they get away with this? Quite legally.
They were either tax exempted because of their foreign investments. Or because they gave to charity.
So let me… Read full post »
Obama, compromising?
President Obama has been steadfast in his contention that any plan to raise the debt ceiling that is short-term ought to be rejected. But now it seems he is wavering on that a bit – a move that may be necessary to get Republicans on board to rais/… Read full post »
Hurting financially? Not if you're a CEO
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
The haves and the haves nots. That's what this country is coming
to.
If you don't have a crystal ball about what that all means, don't
look forward, Look back. Back at what became of/
By Mark Taylor
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
How far does one’s First Amendment rights stretch in the United States?
If a person’s public demonstrations in Florida cause death in Afghanistan should he be barred from Dearborn?
That’s the question facing a judge in Wayne County Michigan… Read full post »
Today’s headline on the Paltalk News Network, “Radioactive water leaking directly into ocean” inspired an interesting comment on my Facebook page.
“Sometimes you get to a point where you just don’t care anymore!”
Really?
Are we so overwhe… Read full post »
By Gage Skidmore
I’ve been ridiculing the birthers since the start of this debate about where President Obama was born.
Obviously, it wasn’t part of a big Obama cover-up when the Republican health department director in Hawaii said the original birth… Read full post »
By secretlondon1 23/Flickr
It’s the kind of thing that would result in an uproar from the left if a Republican president had done it.
The Wall Street Journal reports that President Obama has authorized delaying the reading of Miranda rights when questioning/… Read full post »
So now, President Obama has his own war, not one that he inherited. One that raises a lot of questions – and not just about Libya.
First, it appears that, unlike the Iraq invasion, this one actually is mandated by UN resolution. Though not everyone agrees.
The… Read full post »
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
Three of the potential Republican candidates for president of the United States are refusing to come on CNN to talk about their visions for the nation’s future.
Normally, when a candidate is seeking office – especially the highest office in the land, he or she w… Read full post »
By Daniel Ullrich, Threedots
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
The Iranian leadership can’t stomach saying the word “Israel.” Instead, they refer to Israel as the “Zionist state.”
They do this for two reasons.
First, they don’t want to acknowledge even the existence… Read full post »
By Takver/Flickr
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
A California attorney who does pro bono work for WikiLeaks says she expects the U.S. government to charge the website’s founder, Julian Assange, with espionage.
Speaking on The People Speak show on Paltalk.com and BBS Radio, Julie Turner sa… Read full post »
By Chris Martin/Flickr
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
Attorney General Eric Holder said it again today. There’s an ongoing investigation, he said in answer to a reporter’s question, into the WikiLeaks publishing of confidential State Department documents. He declined to comment on an ongoing… Read full post »
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
We all remember the days when the rumors would run through the school.
“They’re gonna be a fight after class – by the bike racks” was how we always got the word at Coffey Junior High School in Detroit.
Sure enough, after class, seemingly the entire s… Read full post »
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By GARY BAUMGARTEN
This news couldn’t have come at a worse time for those who are so fervently arguing for an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
Supposedly, cutting taxes for the rich gives them impedance to hire people – si… Read full post »
Will Merydith photo
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
It’s not been a week since the midterm elections, the results of which were driven hard by the Tea Party movement, resulting in what its believers hope will be more independent-thinking Republicans being elected to the House of Representatives. Bu… Read full post »
John Boehner, likely the next speaker of the House
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
Now that the Republicans have handily recaptured control of the House of Representatives, the question left to be answered is: how will this affect the business of government?
The fact that the election’s results wer… Read full post »
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By GARY BAUMGARTEN
So Election Day is here, and the winners are: the voters, who no longer have to listen to those attack ads on radio and television.
Last night I got it from both sides. The first ad was by the Democratic incumbent and showed his… Read full post »
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
When George W. Bush was president there was such an outrage over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the treatment of prisoners held indefinitely at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. But now that Barack Obama is commander-in-chief those voices are largely mu/… Read full post »
He's back with another apology.
Carl Paladino, the Tea Party-backed GOP candidate for governor in New York, who issued a mea culpa for forwarding offensive emails earlier in his campaign, is now apologizing for the offensive remarks he made oer the weeke
… Read full post »
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