The Daily Background
| Exclusive: Florida Times-Union on why they’re keeping Coulter
by Arlen Parsa
I just got a response from the Florida Times-Union newspaper regarding its decision to not to drop Ann Coulter’s syndicated column. So far, five six newspapers across the country have dropped her column in the wake of her calling John Edwards a “faggot.”
The Times-Union would not have dropped Coulter’s column even if she had called Edwards a faggot, an employee of the paper has said.
“Ann Coulter did not use that language in her column, and if she did, we
would remove it as part of the normal editing process,” editorial page editor Michael P. Clark told me today.
“We don’t have plans to drop the column,” he added.
Several newspaper editors in the past have said they would not drop Coulter’s column for comments she made outside of the column. The Times-Union response is a departure from that, in that they would keep the column but merely edit out the offending word.
You can find contact information for individual newspaper editors for several dozen newspapers still carrying Coulter’s column here. Feel free to forward respones you get from the editors to me and I’ll print them.
Like a bully in a sandbox, Ann gets juvenile and nasty, venomous and hateful with her words. Let’s see someone get some press who doesn’t perpetuate ignorance and bias, prejudice and hate. I don’t really care which side of the aisle that they sit on, I just care that our society is bettered by good, old fashioned discourse and debate.
Thank you,
Kat Amason