Posted on 05/04/2017 4:08:39 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
A conservative columnist who was suspended by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after she defended the National Rifle Association from comparisons to ISIS fired back with her resignation and a series of targeted tweets.
The newspaper on Friday suspended Stacy Washington after a column entitled "Guns and the Media" disputed an anti-NRA article that argued since more Americans die from guns than from ISIS, the Second Amendment advocacy group is the greater danger.
“[W]hen has a member of the NRA ever decapitated, set on fire, tossed from a rooftop or otherwise terrorized another American? The linkage is not only rife with improper context; it is false on its face,” Washington wrote in her column, which also decried the lack of conservatives in U.S. newsrooms. “This failure to represent the opposing, especially conservative, view is an increasingly apparent deficit in the news reporting apparatus in our country.”
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch asserts that Washington was not suspended for the views expressed in her column, but for failing to disclose her promotional work and professional affiliation with the NRA. Washington has appeared several times as a co-host and commentator on “Cam & Company” on NRA TV and contributed to an NRA documentary in August 2016. However, she has never been paid by the NRA.
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If you get this paper, cancel immediately and let them know why.
The Post-Dispatch is known as “Pravda West” to locals. Real garbage.
Put them out of biz.
“Trump will silence all his critics in the press!”
Fish-wrapper. On a good day. And seldom any good days.
Wherever she ends up I want to buy a subscription.
...then you live in the craptastic dystopia called St. Louis.
Begin the process of moving out or begin drinking heavily.
Interesting standard for requiring disclosure.
It would be fun if she had a legal case against the paper.
These Progressive politicians, school and college administrators,and business honchos are all for gun control as long as terrorists don’t attack them or they have armed bodyguards like Doomberg does.
Wherever she ends up I want to buy a subscription.
Great idea!
I hope the folks who are (hopefully) planning the new conservative alternative to FauxNews will hire her.
Perfecto!
You go, girl! Good for her!
Just because people die from gunfire in the US doesn’t mean that the NRA wants it that way, or even can be held responsible for it even if they didn’t want it that way. More than half the murders in the US come from just 2% of counties, which are overwhelmingly heavily Democrat, and which overwhelmingly enact measures that are the opposite of what the NRA would advise. Pinning the resulting firearms deaths on the NRA is like blaming the deaths of those who choke on hot dogs on Vegans.
More people die from medical errors, 400,000 per year, than from guns, ISIS, and auto accidents combined.
Clearly hospitals, doctors and nurses are far more dangerous to Americans.
They should be banned!
Silly-gism:
Specious premise: Guns are only used to commit murders.
Reasonable premise: The NRA supports guns.
Specious conclusion: The NRA supports murder.
I isolate, freeze and mock "the editors" almost every morning while I drink some coffee and "prep for the day". A couple others have joined the club, but this oped has more negative comments than I've ever seen on that rags website.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/editor-s-note-stacy-washington-s-column-will-no-longer/article_e5a09ae1-d71a-52ef-945f-00d60e1f24b5.html?mode=comments
Seriously, if you have Facebook, please hit em hard.
TIA from a longtime Freeper in St Louis.
This is where an editorial review of how that publication reported on the “hands up don’t shoot” riots what that governor was doing and the US Attorney General as well. Would be of interest.
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