Posted on 08/01/2013 11:30:40 AM PDT by madprof98
A Chattanooga newspaper editor has been fired for that “Take your jobs plan and shove it” headline that greeted President Barack Obama on his arrival to the city earlier this week.
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Can’t speak ill of Dear Leader. Not in Obama’s America.
How dare he step off the plantation!
Speechless
What was he thinking when he criticized Traybama!
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”- Voltaire
or , Put It Back Where You Found It
Chattanooga Free Press...except the Free part, and the Press Part~
Otherwise, He clearly needs to be sent to a re-education camp, get his mind right.
Heck—I would have given him a raise!
I believe we still have a constitution that makes free speech a right.
Meanwhile Obama was happy to see Shepard Fairey’s “FEAR BUSH” stickers illegally posted on stop signs and parking meters. So much was he proud of these, that he was happy to have Mr. Fairey’s help illegally posting the “HOPE” “CHANGE” posters.
This was a newspaper. And you can be sure SOMEONE got an angry phonecall to effect this change.
The Narrative says Obama is still well liked.
Free Press editor Drew Johnson has been terminated after placing a headline on an editorial outside of normal editing procedures.
Johnson’s headline, “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough,” appeared on the Free Press page Tuesday, the day President Barack Obama visited the city.
The headline was inappropriate for this newspaper. It was not the original headline approved for publication, and Johnson violated the normal editing process when he changed the headline. The newspaper’s decision to terminate Johnson had nothing to do with the content of the editorial, which criticized the president’s job creation ideas and Chattanooga’s Smart Grid. The Free Press page has often printed editorials critical of the president and his policies.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press is unique in that it has two editorial pages, the conservative Free Press page and the liberal Times page. This newspaper places high value on expressions of divergent opinion, but will not permit violations of its standards.
haha that's good.
Said editor worked for a paper called the “Free Press”...oh the irony.
Sounds like The Chattanooga Times Free Press is The Pravda of Chattanooga.
This rag wouldn't last a week in Britain.
Putin must be so jealous, the U.S. media censors itself for their Dear Leader.
They fire him, but leave the leftist idiot that keeps writing hard-left demeaning cartoons for the paper. One of the reasons that I don’t get that leftist rag.
They oughta handle it the way the administration would: fire him, promote him, hire him back.
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