Discussion: Newspaper Editor Fired After Publisher Spikes Anti-NRA Editorial

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for attempting to talk with the publisher

Next thing you know they’ll want publisher-level salaries or health care…

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President Trump will have to take out all her family.

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Well, at least the editorial was just spiked, and the editor was just fired. No one was shot.

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Was thinking the same thing. Standing up to the gun-nuts aften has consequences…at least this time they aren’t (yet) fatal.

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Hmm…Second amendment trumps the First amendment, even at a newspaper. Crazy world.

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The “Age of Reason” is lost on America.

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Hopefully the editor will be able to take this opportunity to move up in her career, she should be working somewhere.

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More kicking of the 4th Estate’s corpse please. It’s still not dead enough.

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But somewhere it got hijacked from its real purpose to its fanatical presence.

Yes. That was when people connected to the NRA figured out that by spreading this kind of rabid fear, it could be used as another fundraising arm for Republican candidates. Do we have any indication who those masterminds were?

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Don’t call H.W. a mastermind…

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More likely the publisher wanted such editorials killed without any culpability on the part of the publisher. It wasn’t killing the story that got the editor fired, it was killing the publishers ability to deny she had anything to do with it.

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I wasn’t even THINKING that until you said 'fired."

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And the Lord God NRA was pleased.

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Wasn’t it some Leninist who once said “Happiness is a warm gun”?

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Jan Larson McLaughlin apparently failed to recognize that there is nothing more important in Ohio, the United States, or the entire universe than guns.

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This is an instance where the British term “sacked” might be more appropriate.

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It is lost - we aren’t living in an Age of Reason. We’re living in a Dionysian Age, where emotion, drama and belief are ascendant and reason is not valued by a large percent of the population.

I wish the damn pendulum would swing back.

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Almost. I think you meant to write, “Lennonist”. There, fixed it for you…

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Well, I seem to recall the Revolver album…so it must be true.

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And buy yourself a gun

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