Fired Conservative Columnist Sues Campus Newspaper (follow-up)

self | January 21, 2003 | Igor Birman

[calif_reaganite]

This is the latest from UC Davis. I posted a press release two weeks ago about me getting fired from the UCD campus newspaper for enraging the left. I'm not giving up without a fight.

Here are the links to some of my columns before I got fired:

http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/4912.taf
http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/4837.taf
http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/4718.taf
http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/4579.taf
http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/4492.taf
http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/4398.taf
http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/4275.taf

Meanwhile, the newspaper hired a "replacement" to do my column. One problem though - this guy is a liberal.

Look at some of his stuff if you have the time, it's almost laughable:

http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/5155.taf
http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/5040.taf
Here's my termination notice:

I hope you're having a good new year. Thanks for giving me the opportunity this year to edit your columns. Due to the increasingly tighter spaces in The Aggie and the relative impact of your column, I regret to inform you that I would have to cut your The Right Stuff Column.

This is due to several reasons, first of which is the dryness in your column's tone. I have told you several times that I would like to hear more of your voice in your columns, but that seems to be muddled in a lot of similarly versed right-wing rhetoric that I have heard before. Again, I would like a unique perspective, and you don't seem to provide it.

Secondly, the tone of your column seems to have a tendency to enrage members of the opposing causes. Judging from the range of feedback I have received, your column does not seem to spark dialogue, but anger that only increases a tit-for-tat response.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any more concerns or questions.

Sincerely,

Fitz Vo

If anyone feels like calling Fitz Vo, the editor of Cal Aggie here are his phone numbers: (530) 752-9887 (work) and (530) 753-3393 (home)

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[goodnesswins]

FLY your flags (and a British one, too)....and put up your BUSH/CHENEY signs, (and the BIG W's on your SUV's) for the STATE of the UNION next Tuesday, if you support the President and the United States of America.

[copycat]

Good luck against that worm.

[LtLFtP]

keep up the good work.

I have a friend in the college Republicans who was denied an(unpaid)job with the campus paper (that she was overly qualified for), but didn't get it because of her lengthy answer to this question on the application:

4. If you could change anything about "the specatator" what would it be?


She wrote some "right-wing rhetoric" about not presenting both sides of any issue; and for some reason they never called her back.


Bias? What bias? I don't see any bias.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[doug from upland]

Igor Birman will be on the DFU Radio Hour on Thursday.

[Paul Ross]

[Inyokern]

Bump

[Bob]

As supportive as I am of you in this situation, I don't think that it's really a good idea to publicly post the guy's home phone number. Work numbers are one thing but home numbers are quite another.

Just a suggestion - you might consider sending a FReepmail to Admin Moderator to get it removed from your post.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Keep up the good work, I hope you win---boy, can you write! Can you post email addresses?

[Antoninus]

Good luck, sir. Fight the good fight. Might I suggest that if you win some sort of monetary award, you use it to set up a competing "fair and balanced" paper on campus?

[knuthom]

Judging from the range of feedback I have received, your column does not seem to spark dialogue, but anger

Did he ever think that may be the fault of those providing the feedback. If they refuse to think or engage in civil dialogue, what are you supposed to do?

[Travis McGee]

BTTT!!!!!

[What Is Ain't]

“tendency to enrage members of the opposing causes”

Might we then expect left-wing writers who similarly enrage their opponents on campuses across this country be dismissed as well?

You seem to have a better grasp of what the United States is all about than many native citizens.

Best of luck in your challenge to the modern American facists.

[Bob J]

Excellent choice!

[Valin]

Secondly, the tone of your column seems to have a tendency to enrage members of the opposing causes

Now lord knows I never been called the brightest bulb on the tree but I thought thats one of the things columnists werte supposed to do.

[gop4evr]

BTTT

[calif_reaganite]

Not exactly sure which email addresses you were looking for.
Mine is ibirman@ucdavis.edu
The Aggie can be reached at editor@californiaaggie.com

[calif_reaganite]

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