By: Dave Astor With last week's departure of
Centre Daily Times Executive Editor Bob Unger, some people are wondering if the State College, Pa., newspaper will reinstate conservative columnist Ann Coulter. The answer is no.
"She's not coming back,"
CDT President and Publisher Henry Haitz told E&P Online.
Haitz said he supported Unger's September decision to drop Coulter, agreed with the column Unger wrote "firing" the syndicated writer, and emphasized that the Coulter cancellation "had absolutely nothing to do" with Unger stepping down on Oct. 21. In an Oct. 27
CDT column (
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/4374685.htm), Haitz wrote that he and Unger agreed to part ways because of differences relating to "staff development and how to best organize our resources on behalf of our readers." He added: "Bob served the readers of our community very well during the two and a half years he was editor."
After E&P Online ran an Oct. 22 story about Unger's departure, some Coulter fans e-mailing this site assumed Unger lost his job because of dropping the columnist -- and expressed satisfaction that Unger was gone. More than 70 people e-mailed E&P Online, with about 90% praising Coulter.
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CDT received a different e-mail reaction after last week's announcement of Unger's departure. Haitz told E&P Online that more than 90% of the messages -- which arrived at a rate of 20 or more a day -- supported Unger's September decision and hoped the paper would not bring Coulter back now that Unger was gone.
Haitz said he hopes to replace Unger by the end of the year.
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