Paper may as well get rid of conservative side
I learned this morning that Drew Johnson, the Free Press editorial page editor, had been terminated for a headline he wrote indicating that President Obama could “take his job plan and shove it.”
Obviously a takeoff on the song by Johnny Paycheck, this phrase was nothing more than an eye-catching means of taking issue with the president’s jobs agenda. There are generally two sides to every political question and each side should have the right to express their viewpoint on the same. You seem more than willing to allow Liberal columnists have their say on a variety of issues, often in quite graphic and forceful terms. If you’re unwilling to accept anything other than tepid criticism of President Obama’s agenda from Conservatives, you might as well do away with the right side of the editorial section and let Clay Bennett fill it with cartoons. Because that’s what your paper will have become—a joke!
HOWARD BROWN, Lookout Mountain
Good riddance to Drew Johnson’s arrogance
Kudos to the Times Free Press for finally getting rid of Free Press editorial page editor Drew Johnson.
His arrogant, off -the-wall, and malicious editorials were so out of touch with the majority of the paper’s readers. From his personal vendettas with local public figures to his suggestions of legalizing prostitution and lowering the legal drinking age to 19 (causing even more teens to die on our roads), he used the paper to spread his warped views.