aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, July 24, 2006

Augusta Chronicle drops Coulter

As it happens, I’m sitting right now in a Panera Bread in Augusta:

The Augusta Chronicle of Georgia dropped Coulter’s column from its editorial page last week.  A Friday article from its editorial staff claimed that its editorial page “stand[s] for civility,” and noted two reasons to part ways with Coulter.  First, it saw “stridency” in her declaration that 9/11 widows were “witches.” Second, it worried that “Coulter herself had become the issue, rather than the topics she was writing about, which is an unhealthy circumstance for a journalist, even a columnist.”

The decision comes two weeks after The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, chose to abandon Coulter’s column as well, and while the Shreveport Times of Louisiana is reported to be mulling the same move.

The paper will replace Coulter with conservative columnist Michelle Malkin.

That’s progress??? No, that’s Georgia.