February 15, 2002

Criticize Cap’n Cowpie, Get Fired:

LITTLETON NH - Tim McCarthy, editor of Littleton's weekly newspaper, The Courier, was fired Wednesday for what he believes were political reasons.

In a telephone interview this morning, McCarthy said he thinks he was fired because of anti-Bush editorials and because he supports a long-time Courier political cartoonist, Mike Marland, who got into hot water recently over a cartoon critical of Preznit Poopypants. When McCarthy pressed for a reason, he claims publisher Piatt, "said if he had to give me a cause, it would be insubordination."

Besides the controversial cartoonist, McCarthy claims he'd been asked to change his own "editorial direction" on the war in Afghanistan.
(snips from http://www.caledonian-record.com/pages/local_news/story/faebd52bf)

Where's my f*cking flag???


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