Did White House Have Something To Do With Chattanooga Editor's Firing?

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Investors Business Daily:

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?

 

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Guess who they endorsed for president in 2012.

 

From http://endorsements.ws/other/chattanooga-times-free-press/

 

Gary Johnson for president

 

"With the founding principles and the economic future of our nation at stake, Gary Johnson offers the best plan to restore the values of limited government, personal freedom and free markets that made America the greatest country in the world."

 

One would have thought Barry was there guy with what they did to Mr. Johnson, the editor. Weird.