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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPost-Dispatch Op-Ed Editor: Readers Were Horrified By George Will's Sexual Assault Column
Messenger spoke to CNN's Brian Stelter during Sunday's "Reliable Sources," and explained how the newspaper -- which said it had been considering dropping the column "for several months" -- arrived at the decision.
"We had a lot of readers very angry and very hurt," Messenger said. "It caused us to go back and take a look at it, and it reinforced our previous decision that he had lost a little bit of speed off his fastball, and it caused us to make the decision a little bit more quickly than we would have otherwise."
He also defended the decision to critics who argued that the Post-Dispatch was wrong to silence Will's viewpoint on the issue. Messenger said that the column was "very offensive to many of our readers" and that it is "well within our rights to decide what sort of debate, what level of civility, what level of treatment of women who are sexual assault victims we're going to allow on our page."
"A lot of the responses that were negative to our decision accused us of doing so for political correctness," Messenger added. "That's not the case. We believe that the column trivializes sexual assault victims."
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lark
(23,099 posts)The question is why this is not understood by the Washington Post? Are they just total idiots, or afraid they'll lose their right wing readership if they aren't pro-rape?
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts):/
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)I don't know what does. Not only the attack on you, but others too.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)John Trim · Top Commenter · Works at Self-Employed
I have a sort of reluctant sympathy for George Will. I assure you, I have no use whatsoever for his recent comments about rape, it's just that I seriously question his experience with the realities of everyday life. He's always seemed out of touch with humanity. It's as if he gets up in the morning, puts on his tailored suit, brushes his immaculate hair, flicks imaginary dust off his sleeve, and strides forth to battle unwashed infidels for the sake of the civilized. Did he never have a puppy lick his face? Has he ever gotten dirty? Has he ever cried for a friend?