Paper Owned by same Company as Montgomery Advertiser prints Proud Boys Editorial

 

Gannett facing more criticism after publishing Proud Boys Op-Ed

Florida newspaper apologizes, says they won’t provide platform for neo-fascist group in the future

By David Wildstein, July 11 2022 2:08 pm

A Gannett-owned newspaper in Florida is under fire after publishing a guest column that defended the Proud Boys as “caring fathers” but did not disclose the author was married to a member of the organization.

Gannett owns nine daily newspapers in New Jersey. 

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(And The Montgomery Advertiser in Alabama)

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The Sarasota Herald-Tribune deleted the column from their website – it ran in their print edition on Sunday and apologized for running it at all.

“Our editorial process failed to keep this column from being published as it appeared, which did not meet our standards,” said Jennifer Orsi, the Gannett’s Florida regional executive editor, said on Monday morning.  We are adding additional, higher level review of the process for accepting and editing guest columns for publication.”

FULL STORY HERE.