Free Press Editor Fired For ‘Take Your Jobs Plan And Shove It, Mr. President’

The Chattanooga Times Free Press has fired editor Drew Johnson after criticizing President Obama in an article that quickly went viral, titled“Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President,” the day President Obama visited the city.

According to the paper, the headline was “inappropriate” and “outside of normal editing procedures.”

“It was not the original headline approved for publication, and Johnson violated the normal editing process when he changed the headline,” the Free Press wrote Thursday. “The newspaper’s decision to terminate Johnson had nothing to do with the content of the editorial, which criticized the president’s job creation ideas and Chattanooga’s Smart Grid. The Free Press page has often printed editorials critical of the president and his policies.”
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