Reply #9: Newspapers discontinuing [View All]

AZ Arizona Daily Star dropped 8/2005
IA Cedar Rapids Gazette dropped 7/2006
GA Augusta Chronicle dropped 7/2006
NC weekly in Greensboro 7/2006
MI Oakland Press dropped 3/2007
PA Lancaster New Era dropped 3/2007
TN Mountain Press dropped 3/2007
LA Shreveport Times 3/2007



USAToday 7/26/2004

USA TODAY's plan to have conservative columnist and author Ann Coulter write a daily opinion column from the Democratic convention was scrapped Monday after a dispute involving the first piece she submitted.

Coulter was replaced by Jonah Goldberg, another conservative columnist and frequent CNN commentator. The newspaper still plans to have filmmaker Michael Moore, a vociferous critic of President Bush, write an opinion column during the Republican national convention in a month.

Brian Gallagher, editor of USA TODAY's editorial page, said of Coulter: "We had a disagreement over editing. We worked diligently to resolve the differences and couldn't, so we decided to part ways." He said the column had "basic weaknesses in clarity and readability that we found unacceptable."

Coulter told the online edition of Editor & Publisher magazine that "USA TODAY doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them."