Posted on 11/23/2004 8:37:58 AM PST by FairfaxVA
Norfolk's Virginian-Pilot is dropping columnist Michelle Malkin because, according to the paper's editorial board, she's an "Asian Ann Coulter" whose columns are too "anti-liberal" and "seemingly mean-spirited."
Responding to a reader's complaint about the conservative scribe, the paper's public editor, Marvin Lake, announced on Monday that "she's outta here."
In quotes cover by Editor & Publisher, Lake explained that the Virginian-Pilot's editorial board had concluded Malkin was "too stridently anti-liberal" and that readers objected to her "seemingly mean-spirited rantings and suggested that she be dropped." Malkin's meticulously researched columns have covered a variety of topics, including exposing Sen. Robert Byrd as a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer years after he formally left the organization, and warning how America's failed immigration system has left the country vulnerable to another terrorist attack.
Malkin has also authored two landmark books and immigration and the Japanese internment during World War II.
Still, editorial writer Don Luzzatto was unimpressed, telling Lake: "I was really put off by her penchant for name-calling and ad hominem attack. I think we can do much better.
Virginian-Pilot editorial board member Bronwyn Lance Chester went so far as to invoke Malkin's race.
"Shes an Asian Ann Coulter. . . . She says outrageous things just to get TV appearances and book deals. Shes the worst of whats wrong with punditry today. She adds absolutely nothing to genuine political discourse.
Just shows these liberals are scared to death of strong, smart women!
Let's get our terms right."
OK, How about "biased"?
Made my day ...
Filipino ...
Sounds like Kimora Lee Simmons. She looks like her too, so I was wondering.
Well, to borrow a phrase used often by Liberals...."She's being punished and denied the right to make a living strictly because she speaks her mind".
I wonder if they will show their support for her as strongly as they did for the Ditsi Chunks, Linda Ronstadt...
Seriously, maybe this paper is really trying to lower the level of discord. If so, I can't argue with them.
I know. The question was rhetorical.
Isn't it odd that my post and 78m and 79 have a disagreement as to terms.
Censorship to me is disallowing someone to be heard. The paper no longer accepts MIchelle Malkins column because one person complained that is, in my mind censorship.
Some have called to my local paper complaining about Ivens or Diana West who is one of the conservative writers. The response by the editors are they give both sides of the issue, giving equal time to the guest writers...Isn't that the way it should be?
I think that's " a chill wynde blowin'".
This is why I haven't subscribed to a mainstream newspaper in years.
I agree :-)
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