A Sixth Paper Drops Ann Coulter
March 9, 2007 -- 10:58 AM EST // // Post a Comment
I just got off the phone with Billy Liggett, the editor of the Sanford Herald, in central North Carolina. He confirmed to me that his paper has decided to chuck Ann Coulter in the wake of her "faggot" comment.
"We typically ran her in our Sunday op-ed," Liggett says. "This Sunday, we are not going to run her, and we'll explain the decision in an editorial that day." Liggett -- who says his paper has a circulation of 10,000 to 12,000 -- tells me he received 834 emails today asking the paper to drop her. That brings our count to six papers who've decided they're not obliged to publish the work of someone who makes a healthy living calling people "raghead" and "faggot" and all manner of other sandbox epithets.
"We made the decision before that," Liggett says. "It was something we had talked about prior to her recent remarks. Those were kind of the last straw -- they sealed the deal as far as our decision goes."
As noted here yesterday, a list of some of the 100 or so papers that carry Coulter's columns compiled by Media Matters can be found here.
Today this blog is emailing every one of the newspapers on the list to see whether they are going to continue carrying Coulter's columns or whether they've decided to drop her. Stay with us.
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