Radio Contact Made With President Of Ann Coulter's Syndicate!
March 8, 2007 -- 5:48 PM EST // // Post a Comment
I've just spoken briefly by phone with Lee Salem, the president of Universal Press Syndicate, the outfit that is under mounting pressure to stop distributing Ann Coulter's column in the wake of her "faggot" observation about John Edwards.
As you know, this blog emailed him a long list of questions earlier today. Salem says that he's received them, and judging from our conversation he's genuinely considering answering them. We may hear from him on these questions in the next day or two. This is a decent start -- we'll see where it leads. Incidentally, he's also heard from many of you, too.
One other point, one that many of you have also been raising. In the form letter that Salem emails to readers who write in expressing concern about Coulter, Salem writes:
In the case of Ann Coulter (and others across the political spectrum whom readers have urged us to drop), she is not an employee and we have no legal power to "fire" her, though, of course, any of her subscribing newspapers can drop her column at any time.
Many of you have been asking whether there's a list of the 100 or so papers that carry her column. Well, ask and ye shall receive! Media Matters has in fact compiled just such a list. Here are the first five, just to give you a bit of flavor and get you started:
(1)Antelope Valley Press (Palmdale)(2) Pasadena Star-News
(3) San Gabriel Valley Tribune (West Covina)
(4) Whittier Daily News
(5) Siskiyou Daily News (Yreka)
The rest of them, complete with the names of the editors and contact info, can be found here.
Meanwhile, Media Matters also reports that a fifth paper has now dropped Coulter's column. Five and counting.
Drip...drop...drip...drop...drip...
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