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Demovictory9

(32,475 posts)
Sat Apr 28, 2018, 02:23 AM Apr 2018

'Mass firing' at conservative site RedState (for not being pro Trump enough)

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/27/media/redstate-blog-salem-media/index.html

Salem Media, owner of the influential conservative outlet RedState, froze the site on Friday and dismissed many of its writers.
Bloggers were locked out of their accounts -- some just temporarily, while the cuts were made, and others permanently.

Erick Erickson, the site's longtime editor who left in 2015, tweeted about what he called the "mass firing" on Friday morning.

"Very sad to see, but not really surprising given Salem's direction," he wrote. "And, finally, after all these years, they've turned off my account."

Multiple sources told CNNMoney that they believed conservative critics of President Trump were the writers targeted for removal.

"Insufficiently partisan" was the phrase one writer used in a RedState group chat.
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'Mass firing' at conservative site RedState (for not being pro Trump enough) (Original Post) Demovictory9 Apr 2018 OP
Awww.. Stupid redstate wants to promote the stupid.. Cha Apr 2018 #1
I Posted There A Couple Times PaulX2 Apr 2018 #2
Dismissed for being insufficiently deplorable DFW Apr 2018 #3

Cha

(297,692 posts)
1. Awww.. Stupid redstate wants to promote the stupid..
Sat Apr 28, 2018, 02:30 AM
Apr 2018

So if you're not sufficiently stupid.. you're outta here.

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