UPDATE: Eight newspapers drop Coulter

[waiting for hope]

in the wake of CPAC remarks....

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703120009

As of March 12, eight newspapers have dropped right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's column after remarks Coulter made at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where she referred to Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (NC) as a "faggot." On March 8, Media Matters for America published a list of daily newspapers that carried Coulter's column at the time she made her controversial remarks -- as well as the email addresses of the editors of those papers -- and suggested that readers contact the editors to discuss their papers' decisions to carry Coulter's column.

The eighth paper, the Herald & Review of Decatur, Illinois, announced its decision in a March 11 column, in which Herald & Review editor Gary Sawyer cited Coulter's CPAC comments and asserted:

Most of you will think that we're dropping her column in response to that comment. Some will undoubtedly believe that we're caving in to liberals, who have launched what appears to be a national campaign to get newspapers to dump Coulter's column. Others are probably praising us for finally seeing what's wrong with Coulter's column.

Whatever group you find yourself in, you're partially right.

Sawyer further wrote that "questioning someone's sexual orientation in such a vile way goes beyond reasonable comment," adding that "Coulter's column has become a one note symphony." Sawyer also claimed that Coulter "seems to adore the public spotlight a little too much."

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Na na Na Na Hey Hey Hey Good Bye!

:woohoo:

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[Cass]

2. "...a one note symphony."

Excellent description.

I thought for sure she would be toast after her vile remarks about the 9/11 widows. Its interesting that most of the explanations for dropping her column mention how this episode is the last straw for them...that's she's ben wearing out her welcome for awhile and her rantings are getting stale and predictable. I guess better late than never but I'm wondering what it will take for the other papers that still carry her column to drop it? She's pretty far out there already - really makes me wonder how far is too far for the rest of her subscribers?

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4. She's got a few hangers on....

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703120010

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The State Journal-Register -- a newspaper that carries Ann Coulter's column but was not on Media Matters' original list -- published an editorial March 11 asking readers to weigh in on whether or not it should continue to publish Coulter. The editorial noted Media Matters' item on Coulter, saying, "MediaMatters missed us, thank goodness, so we have not been deluged with anti-Coulter e-mails from across the country."

Despite calling Coulter's slur against Edwards "an idiotic, sophomoric statement," the editorial expressed reluctance at pulling Coulter from the paper's roster of columnists without receiving more feedback from its readers first. "We would not have run Coulter if we did not believe she held value for at least some of our readers," the editorial stated.

In the same article that discussed The Clarion-Ledger's decision to continue running Coulter's column, Editor & Publisher also reported that The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville would continue to run Coulter's column

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At the pace she's been clipping, I doubt it won't be too much longer till she says something else equally offensive.

[EST]

3. A problem is that some of these papers, perhaps all, are

replacing Coulter with Malkin. Little improvement. I'm glad this is going slowly enough to keep Coulter pretty well out there as the voice of the publiclown party.

[Contrary1]

5. There was a post yesterday,

can't find it now to give props to the author, but here is the link
to one of her former advertisers, in case you missed it. :evilgrin:

http://www.vintagecotton.com/

[waiting for hope]

6. That was awesome....

Thanks! It's a good thing that people are becoming more and more aware that pandering to that kind of bigotry has no place in a free and open society...or at least, what's left of it.

[waiting for hope]

7. It's up to Nine Now!

The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Ontario, California, dropped Coulter's column "last week," according to an email opinion editor Mike Brossart sent Media Matters on the evening of March 12. The Daily Bulletin was not included in Media Matters' list of newspapers carrying Coulter's column, but Media Matters contacted managing editor Jeff Keating after a reader tip indicated that the Daily Bulletin did, in fact, carry Coutler. Keating referred Media Matters to Brossart, who asserted that the paper "used to run Ann Coulter's column, but no longer does." A follow-up email from Brossart indicated that Coulter was dropped during the week following her CPAC remarks.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703130001