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Did White House Have Something To Do With Chattanooga Editor's Firing?
Investors.com ^ | August 2, 2013 | Editorial

Posted on 08/02/2013 5:00:46 PM PDT by jazusamo

Media: A Tennessee newspaper fired an editor over a hard-hitting editorial denouncing President Obama's jobs plan on the very day the president came to town to tout it. This has the odor of White House revanchism.

ngbfThe Chattanooga Times Free Press insists that its firing of Drew Johnson for the title of his editorial, "Take Your Jobs Plan And Shove It, Mr. President," was unrelated to content, and merely a case of an insubordinate editor changing his headline to a riff on a song by Nashville singer Johnny PayCheck over another headline. Frankly, it's hard to believe.

For one thing, it's odd in the news industry to fire someone over a headline that could easily be reversed on the Internet, if that's the issue. And it's strange for a newspaper to be angry about a headline that must have drawn hundreds of thousands of hits to the paper's website, with a prominent link on the Drudge Report.

Would they prefer a dull headline over one that readers wanted to click?

Lastly, Johnson said he changed headlines all the time at the last minute, something common in the industry.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: chattanooga; editor; firing; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; tennessee
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Doubtful it's a coincidence, Obummer and handlers had to be ticked off.
1 posted on 08/02/2013 5:00:46 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Bankrupt The Chattanooga Times Free Press.


2 posted on 08/02/2013 5:02:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: jazusamo; Revolting cat!
"Ehhh... COULD BE."


3 posted on 08/02/2013 5:03:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: jazusamo

Probably threatened them with IRS.


4 posted on 08/02/2013 5:04:56 PM PDT by marron
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To: marron
1 9 8 4 !!
5 posted on 08/02/2013 5:07:00 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: jazusamo

Walton and Johnson have stated on air that they believe their radio show was dropped from Houston airwaves (their hometown, although they are also syndicated in other markets) because of something they said while Obama was coming through town on a fundraiser trip.

If I recall, their show was dropped shortly afterwards (one week after?). They also indicated they believed a local sports franchise owner moved his team’s radio broadcasts to another station in this same action (don’t know if they said the team owner was at the fundraiser or not). It took them several years to return to Houston radio.


6 posted on 08/02/2013 5:07:17 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: jazusamo

That was my first thought. It seems they did it before if I remember. .


7 posted on 08/02/2013 5:08:22 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: a fool in paradise

I’ve read in the past that Obummer takes pleasure in getting even and believe it.


8 posted on 08/02/2013 5:10:55 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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it certainly wouldn’t surprise me

nothing from this administration does anymore. If Obama put hundreds of teapartyers in gulags it wouldn’t surprise me.


9 posted on 08/02/2013 5:12:30 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (EVERYTHING IS RACISM!!! except hating whitey)
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To: jazusamo

That NSA database is priceless.


10 posted on 08/02/2013 5:12:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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11 posted on 08/02/2013 5:13:22 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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12 posted on 08/02/2013 5:13:52 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: jazusamo

Clever headlines sell newspapers. If it was a clever headline and appropriate for the article, he did his job.


13 posted on 08/02/2013 5:14:30 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: jazusamo

The article was spot on. I watched a dvr of ‘Investing in America’
9/20/10
“A special town hall event with President Barack Obama, who discusses the economy and answers questions.”

Nothing has Changed. ‘He’s stuck on stupid!’ to borrow a phrase from General Honore.


14 posted on 08/02/2013 5:14:33 PM PDT by griswold3
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To: jazusamo

Mr. Johnson’s editorial didn’t honor President Obama.


15 posted on 08/02/2013 5:15:00 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: jazusamo
Wouldn't surprise me SINCE THE NEWS MEDIA ARE ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE OBAMA REGIME NOW.

I noticed Jay Leno isn't making any jokes about 0bama since July 30, the day it was announced 0bama will be on his show (TUESDAY AUGUST 6TH AND DO NOT WATCH LENO THAT NIGHT (not that you do anyway).

16 posted on 08/02/2013 5:16:31 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: jazusamo
Fired by Obama?

If I were still an editor, I'd call that a great résumé enhancer.

He won't be without a job for long, I'm thinking.

17 posted on 08/02/2013 5:18:40 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Flycatcher

LOL!! Right on, my friend.


18 posted on 08/02/2013 5:20:08 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

After the IRS audit tales, the “payback” stories about conservative owned GM dealerships being shuttered for political reasons seems much more believable.


19 posted on 08/02/2013 5:20:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: jazusamo

This White House is like being a Horror Movie


20 posted on 08/02/2013 5:21:20 PM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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