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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The outrage is not that the White House pressured the paper, it’s that the paper CAVED.
The press was once one of the main safeguards of our liberty but there is no more honor or integrity in the profession.
Yes. It is too bad that We the People have no counter to a dishonest press.
Virtually EVERY society that has devolved into tyranny has been led down that path by a dishonest press.
We now are a nation governed of, by and for Ophonybama and his buddies.
Thanks to a complicit press!
OMG!! That’s the grossest pic I’ve seen in ages, I’d pay many times five bucks to keep it away. :-)
I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again...
This has Valerie Jarrett stink all over it.
Agreed, this is Jarrett’s MO.
LOL! I stole it from iOwnTheWorld. They’re using it to get donations over there. :o)
Drew Johnson took a political position against the president. The editorial was SUPPOSED to be debating whether Obama made his blue tie look better or his red one. Drew Johnson failed to stay on topic and got what he deserved.
/s
Does a bear sh*t in the woods.
How near-fetched!
Thanks jazusamo.
Doubtful it is a coincidence, but I am still a bit annoyed with this story. It’s pure speculation without even the thinest whiff of a smoking gun. Not very professional.
Wrong question.
The question is, HOW could you selectively get rid of 30 million people in a short period of time ?
Funnier still is that they paid off the hit man, even though he botched the job, and they did it with your tax money.
I do not know, but I suspect the communist Obamanites are trying to figure that out right now. When they come up with the final solution, watch out.
Thank you so much, smoothsailing!!!!
B^)
Been a pretty good day for donations, -— “please keep up the good work!”
Excellent!
Gulags? I hardly think so.
Let the worthless dreck at DHS try it.
The fools have no idea what would be in store for them if they tried to kill their way through this Country.
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