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Monday, July 26, 2004
USA Today (may have) spiked Coulter column
USA Today reportedly spiked a Ann Coulter column after commissioning the blonde columnist to rant daily for their publication. The paper denies it spiked the column, that it only asked for changes. WorldNetDaily runs the offending piece. There are genuinely funny parts ("I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours") but after reading the first paragraph I understand why the paper wanted amendments: "Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston, conservatives are deploying a series of covert signals to identify one another, much like gay men do." She also repeatedly refers to Dems as nuts, which they are, but which isn't polite to point out in columns in the paper of record for vacationing Americans.
Coulter's column was over the top but it will be interesting to see what Michael Moore gets away with when he covers the GOP convention for USA Today in September.
Posted by Paul Tuns on July 26, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink
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Curious how the fluff paper that is USA Today would pick up Coulter (and Moore) in the first place.
My guess is they decided to take the most extreme cases of partisanship on both sides just for the fun of it, and then got freaked out when they realized what they've created.
Fun stuff. This is why the only US paper I ever read is the WSJ.
Posted by: Kelvin | 2004-07-27 9:05:14 AM
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