Posted on 11/24/2004 8:35:26 AM PST by Maria S
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 covered by Editor & Publisher, Lake explained that the Virginian-Pilot's editorial board had concluded that 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 about how America's failed immigration system has left the country vulnerable to another terrorist attack.
Malkin has also authored two landmark books, one on immigration and the other on 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.
"She’s an Asian Ann Coulter. ... She says outrageous things just to get TV appearances and book deals. She’s the worst of what’s wrong with punditry today. She adds absolutely nothing to genuine political discourse.”
This paper probably runs a DAILY Molly Ivins!!
What's wrong with being anti-liberal? That's like saying it is wrong to be pro-American.
Incredible.
Wait...Malkin is ASIAN!!! I had no idea! good thing this article pointed this out to me.
Liberal Media Bias rears its ugly head again!
I bet they would have no problem with an ‘anti-conservative’ writer.
Does the rainbow coalition know about this? Is Whoopi Goldberg concerned about free speech? Does the Pope crap in the woods?
A lot of people read her articles but don't know who she is.
I'm sure it's not a big deal to Malkin as she is a great writer and will be just fine without this piece of drek publishing her stuff.
ahem..pictures?
there IS a malkin rule in effect.
If only these papers had the same attitude toward writers who were "too anti-conservative."
Passing on the arguments about liberal/anti-liberal and whatever, one must point out that her book which attempts to justify the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during WWII goes too far. It's also factually BS, and I know, since my new PhD (YES! YES! IT'S OVER!) was born out six years of hard research into the U.S. domestic policies during WWII.
"This paper probably runs a DAILY Molly Ivins!!"
Let's complain about the liberal columnists being too anti-Conservative and see if they get dropped, too.
Oh, wait, I forgot - Free Speech is for liberals, only.
>She adds norhting to genuine political discourse<
Except the other side of liberalism. IOW fairness and balance.
Not a good enough search then.
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