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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: chattanooga; editor; firing; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; tennessee
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To: Taxman

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.


41 posted on 08/02/2013 6:16:50 PM PDT by Walrus (America died on November 6, 2012 --- RIP)
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To: jazusamo
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42 posted on 08/02/2013 6:26:25 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Walrus

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!


43 posted on 08/02/2013 6:29:30 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: smoothsailing

OMG!! That’s the grossest pic I’ve seen in ages, I’d pay many times five bucks to keep it away. :-)


44 posted on 08/02/2013 6:30:31 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

I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again...

This has Valerie Jarrett stink all over it.


45 posted on 08/02/2013 6:31:08 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

Agreed, this is Jarrett’s MO.


46 posted on 08/02/2013 6:38:35 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

LOL! I stole it from iOwnTheWorld. They’re using it to get donations over there. :o)


47 posted on 08/02/2013 6:39:05 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: jazusamo
It's the first thing that occurred to me...
48 posted on 08/02/2013 7:06:44 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: jazusamo

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


49 posted on 08/02/2013 7:15:40 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: jazusamo

Does a bear sh*t in the woods.


50 posted on 08/02/2013 7:18:30 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

How near-fetched!

Thanks jazusamo.


51 posted on 08/02/2013 7:33:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: 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.


52 posted on 08/02/2013 7:49:06 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: Mark17; Cubs Fan
Would 30 million people go quietly into the night?

Wrong question.

The question is, HOW could you selectively get rid of 30 million people in a short period of time ?

53 posted on 08/02/2013 7:50:59 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: nascarnation
Funny thing was the Congress critter who gave them the most pushback on the dealer closures was Gabby Giffords.

Funnier still is that they paid off the hit man, even though he botched the job, and they did it with your tax money.

54 posted on 08/02/2013 7:53:27 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: UCANSEE2
The question is, HOW could you selectively get rid of 30 million people in a short period of time ?

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.

55 posted on 08/02/2013 8:12:43 PM PDT by Mark17 (Yesterday I couldn't spell it. Today I are one, a creepy a$$ cracker)
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To: smoothsailing

Thank you so much, smoothsailing!!!!


56 posted on 08/02/2013 8:12:46 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

B^)


57 posted on 08/02/2013 8:16:11 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Been a pretty good day for donations, -— “please keep up the good work!”


58 posted on 08/02/2013 8:19:01 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

Excellent!


59 posted on 08/02/2013 8:22:29 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Cubs Fan

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.


60 posted on 08/02/2013 9:22:11 PM PDT by Prole
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