Editor: Axing Coulter Didn't Cost Me My Job

Editor and Publisher ^ | October 22nd, 2002 | Dave Astor

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Is this letter actual? This is drivel. As though written by a sophomoric fool.

[sultan88]

Some good news from Happy Valley!!

[EODGUY]

"There's a story about Ann (though it may be Laura Ingraham) when she found out her boyfriend was cheating on her.


Ann's boyfriend thinking to himself: "Let's see, my girlfriend is brilliant, beautiful, charming, witty and wholesome......I know what I'll do....I'll go cruising and nail some skank and flush our relationship down the toilet."

This guy isn't just a candidate for the Darwin award....he is Darwin!

[mrustow]

Who among us has NEVER been canned?

Me-e-e! Never, never, never!

In my youth I was fired a few times. Most of the time I deserved it.

I can't ever remember being such a wimp that I lied about it.

As I said in response to the application question, "Were you ever dismissed from a position, or did you ever resign from a position to avoid dismissal?," I was never dismissed, and never resigned to avoid dismissal, but I did have a number of mutual agreements with my coworkers....

Oh, and some of my other positions were eliminated.

[Deb]

What garbage.

To begin with, he couldn't "fire" her. She didn't work for him. He could only drop her column.

[PoorMuttly]

Does this mean we DO get to fire him for it again ?

Should be fired at least twice, just on suspicion.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Here's another one.

Unger resigns as Centre Daily Times editor

AP-via Pennlive.com 10/22/02 3:54 PM

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Robert V. Unger resigned as vice president and executive editor of the Centre Daily Times of State College, effective immediately, the paper announced Tuesday.

Unger said he and publisher Henry Haitz had "some differences in where we saw the paper going, differences in style and direction," and that his was a "mutually agreed-upon departure."

Haitz said Unger "deserves credit for continuing the CDT's tradition of award-winning journalism." During Unger's 2½-year tenure, the newspaper won successive Keystone awards from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, including its fifth consecutive "sweepstakes" award this past year.

Haitz said the paper would immediately begin a nationwide search for Unger's replacement.

Unger received national attention last month when he wrote an open letter to conservative columnist Ann Coulter, saying the paper would no longer run her columns and calling her "mean -- vicious, really -- which is why we do not believe that you in any way serve the public good."

Before coming to State College, Unger was editor in chief for a group of 13 weekly newspapers in the Boston area. He also served as the top editor of newspapers in St. Joseph, Mo., Jacksonville, Ill., and Holyoke, Mass., and is the former president of the Missouri Associated Press Managing Editors and the Northwest Missouri Press Association.

[weegee]

Amazon keeps out of print books listed on their site. Additionaly vanity press books like the man-boy love relationships book are sold by Amazon. His first book must not have been any kind of a big seller.

[wewillnotfail]

What a hissy fit he threw in that letter! I'd have fired him on that basis aline.

[The Raven]

This is the column needing a delete

[Caipirabob]

Editor: Axing Coulter Didn't Cost Me My Job

LOL! He did get sacked for it! Neener-neener!

[Stallone]

"Pantywaisted Former Editor of Pissant Little Nobody-Cares Newspaper: How I Took On Ann "Conservobabe" Coulter Without Doing It to Her Face"

Believe me, if I took on Ann, I WOULD be doing it to her face...and often. She would insist. And those long legs...

Ann, why haven't you called? You know you want to...

[self_evident]

So, basically I'm accusing him of being a liar.

That's mean!

;-)

[Theodore R.]

In this time of political correctness, only a liberal is capable of determining who is "mean," and the "mean" people of course are the non-liberals.

[Tallguy]

Your forgot Molly Ivins!

[Landru]

"So why did Unger and the Centre Daily Times part ways? Unger, who was reached at home, said there was 'a difference in style and objective' between him and Henry Haitz, who became publisher of the paper several months ago. Unger declined to give specifics, noting that he was not allowed to do so under his separation agreement."

See H1??
*This* is how it's done.
Tell your friends over at the Irish pub/stinker to study this "technique" carefully.

We yanks have a simple slang term for getting rid of these kinds of leakers.

..."Delousing." ;^)

[Landru]

"Unger, who had been executive editor for 2 1/2 years, said he had no immediate job prospects but was working on his second novel."

HA!!
Second *novel*, huh?

He thinks Annie was mean?

...wait'll he meets the clowns running the unemployment office. :o)

[Landru]

"Unger, who had been executive editor for 2 1/2 years, said he had no immediate job prospects but was working on his second novel."

Is this a "Max Schumacher" right outa "Network," or what?

...how sweeeeeeet it issssss!

[katana]

"the entire Kennedy clan as a collection of "heroin addicts, convicted killers, cheaters, bootleggers and dissolute drunks,"

There isn't a single factual error in that description. The Kennedy's are and will always be low class pond scum made wealthy through the Pater Familias' bootlegging and timely exit from the stock market in '27. Corrupt as corrupt can be and Ann only told the truth.