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An editor at the Chattanooga Times Free Press has been fired after adding a pithy headline to a piece critical of President Obama's stimulus plan. Author Drew Johnson announced on Twitter that he had been fired: I just became the first person in the history of newspapers to be fired for writing a paper's most-read article. The Times Free Press published the piece Tuesday under the headline "Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough." Johnson has admitted the headline was his idea but claims headlines are changed routinely. A statement published by...