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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChattanooga paper fires editor for 'Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President' headline
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press
Free Press editor Drew Johnson has been terminated after placing a headline on an editorial outside of normal editing procedures.
Johnsons headline, Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough, appeared on the Free Press page Tuesday, the day President Barack Obama visited the city.
The headline was inappropriate for this newspaper. It was not the original headline approved for publication, and Johnson violated the normal editing process when he changed the headline. The newspapers decision to terminate Johnson had nothing to do with the content of the editorial, which criticized the presidents job creation ideas and Chattanoogas Smart Grid. The Free Press page has often printed editorials critical of the president and his policies.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press is unique in that it has two editorial pages, the conservative Free Press page and the liberal Times page. This newspaper places high value on expressions of divergent opinion, but will not permit violations of its standards.
Read more: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/aug/01/free-press-editorial-page-editor-no-longer-times-f/
lpbk2713
(42,740 posts)Some idiots just get carried away after listening to
Limbaugh and Beck and that ilk for too long a stretch.
He got what he begged for IMO.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)dballance
(5,756 posts)I'd put money on it. Of course, I'm from Middle TN and we always thought those people in East TN were crazy inbreds anyway.
GiaGiovanni
(1,247 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)I'm not kidding.
GiaGiovanni
(1,247 posts)?
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Whether or not he's a DU troll? I honestly wouldn't be at all surprised if he was.
We got a lot of folks here who would rec a headline like that.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)You see, because Obama hasn't done anything for the middle class.
He hasn't done anything to create jobs. NOTHING!
GiaGiovanni
(1,247 posts)Got it.