Taken from an article written by Todd Starnes
The Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial page editor who criticized President Obama’s jobs plan ...is now out of a job.
Drew Johnson’s editorial, titled “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President:
Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough,” went viral and drew
national attention earlier this week when President Obama visited the
city.The newspaper released a statement Thursday saying Johnson had been
fired for “placing a headline on an editorial outside of normal editing
procedures.”
“The headline was inappropriate for this newspaper,” the statement
read. “It was not the original headline approved for publication, and
Johnson violated the normal editing process when he changed the
headline.”
Johnson, who had been with the newspaper for just over a year, addressed his firing on Twitter.
“I just became the first person in the history of newspapers to be fired for writing a paper’s most-read article,” he tweeted.
Johnson defended the headline, noting that “we change headlines all the time without incident or issue.”
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