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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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To: jazusamo

The narcissist cannot handle criticism.


21 posted on 08/02/2013 5:22:49 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Goodbye America. Glad the majority of my years were spent during the good days.)
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To: jazusamo
Dis is a nice newspaper you got here, it would be a pity if you had NRLB problems, an IRS audit or you wife and kids found out what the NSA knows about your little indiscretion with the pool boy...
22 posted on 08/02/2013 5:25:09 PM PDT by null and void (You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
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To: a fool in paradise
conservative owned GM dealerships being shuttered for political reasons seems much more believable.

Absolutely, that was no coincidence, IMO.

Obummer was in the middle of that bailout and conservative owners were axed no matter their superior sales.

23 posted on 08/02/2013 5:26:33 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: Cubs Fan
nothing from this administration does anymore. If Obama put hundreds of teapartyers in gulags it wouldn’t surprise me.

Putting them in Gulags would be tame, compared to what they would really like to do. I think that friend of Odumbo said they would like to eliminate 30 million of us. If they did that, it wouldn't surprise me either. Would 30 million people go quietly into the night? I am not sure one way or another.

24 posted on 08/02/2013 5:28:19 PM PDT by Mark17 (Yesterday I couldn't spell it. Today I are one, a creepy a$$ cracker)
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To: jazusamo

I don’t think of Chattanooga as being particularly liberal...


25 posted on 08/02/2013 5:36:03 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Old Yeller
The narcissist cannot handle criticism.

I'm going to try and find out. Obama...take your job and shove it. That is if Reggie isn't occupying the hole.
26 posted on 08/02/2013 5:36:24 PM PDT by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I read the book by Caliph Baraq’s “auto czar” Steve “the rat” Rattner who oversaw the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies.

Funny thing was the Congress critter who gave them the most pushback on the dealer closures was Gabby Giffords.


27 posted on 08/02/2013 5:37:50 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Vendome
I don’t think of Chattanooga as being particularly liberal...

The "Times Free Press" is pretty liberal, despite having an opposing view page. They do a left-right wing on the editorial page, but the rest of the paper is pretty much AP-liberal.

The city itself - while it's somewhat conservative, it has plenty of liberals just waiting in the wings to turn Chattanooga into the next Detroit. Fortunately, we have some really alert and attentive conservatives around town.

Lest we forget, RINO Senator Corker was previously the Mayor of Chattanooga.

28 posted on 08/02/2013 5:43:33 PM PDT by meyer (What would John Hancock do?)
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To: jazusamo

Changing headlines at any time is totally common. I did it at our paper daily. You WANT attention grabbing headlines. That’s the whole freaking POINT of a headline.

This is the result of someone, either local advertizers or political operatives turning the screws.

Period.


29 posted on 08/02/2013 5:46:08 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: meyer

Love that outlet mall there and taking in the views at the top of the hill and pretending I can see 5 states.

Beautiful area.


30 posted on 08/02/2013 5:46:45 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: meyer

Thanks for your concise post, most interesting.


31 posted on 08/02/2013 5:48:24 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: Norm Lenhart

Bump.


32 posted on 08/02/2013 5:49:21 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

If they pick them off one by one, each individual/paper/ news outlet will back off and be intimidated. IF they all got together and announced, from the skies: “WE were intimidated by Obama” they would outnumber ALL the Chicago thugs in the WH.

“They came for the editor in Chattanooga, but it didn’t affect me, so I did nothing.”


33 posted on 08/02/2013 5:53:04 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: jazusamo

YES!

It simply amazes me how many people let themselves be bullied by Ophonybama!


34 posted on 08/02/2013 5:53:09 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: jazusamo

Headlines are changed/redone for all kinds of reasons. Size primarily to fit available space with the layout. But just because you are given i=one by whoever, AP included does not mean you are obligated to use it. Most people don’t know how a paper works so it’s not surprising this is a ‘controversy’. In truth it is being MADE into one.


35 posted on 08/02/2013 5:55:08 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: jazusamo

“If Obama were any more thin skinned, he’d have a reservoir tip,” joked Dennis Miller


36 posted on 08/02/2013 5:58:01 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
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To: jazusamo

If so it backfired. Now the whole country has seen the headline.


37 posted on 08/02/2013 6:12:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Paladin2

I bet there were a few un-traceable calls put in-—I bet some from the Oval Office.


38 posted on 08/02/2013 6:13:23 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: NonValueAdded

“If Obama were any more thin skinned, he’d have a reservoir tip,” joked Dennis Miller

Ba-da-bing!


39 posted on 08/02/2013 6:15:31 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes! :-)


40 posted on 08/02/2013 6:15:53 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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