What I'm hearing is the Ghomeshi article and Slate interview were the triggers, but by no means the causes.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
trying again. hated the ghomeshi piece so much that i cheered the backlash. but he should not have been fired for it. we seem to have forgotten all the other ways of handling controversial, inaccurate, and outright awful stories. let's review...
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Replying to @KenWhyte3 @HeerJeet
use the letters page; expand the letters page; expand the letters page and dedicate it to that one piece; give equal space or more to opposing views; allow publisher or board or staff to dissent from piece; retract, clarify, or apologize; if that's insufficient...
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Replying to @KenWhyte3
I agree a single bad article (or even a few bad articles) isn't a cause for firing and there are other remedies for that. I'm just saying there are reasons to think it was more than a single bad article behind this.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
i'm not a fan of his, i was finding less to read in the magazine, and it was dicey giving that job to someone with so little editorial experience. i mean, he walked right into that one...
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Yeah, that was a big issue, I think. Editing is a profession (as you know!). You can't just start editing at age 66, at a top magazine to boot.
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