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Politico staffers signed a letter sent to publisher Robert Allbritton decrying the decision to allow conservative firebrand Ben Shapiro a platform on the website and slamming Editor-in-Chief Matt Kaminski’s handling of the matter.
The
letter claims that the publication’s decision to offer the platform to Shapiro demoralized a large portion of the newsroom while also taking aim at Kaminski’s reported lack of compassion for the staff’s concerns.
The letter claims that Kaminski has still not appropriately apologized for allowing Shapiro s one-day edition of
Politico Playbook to be published or his subsequent dismissal of his newsroom’s dismay. Kaminski expressed regret over characterizing the article as “mischief making,” but has stood by his decision to publish Shapiro to “mix things up” in a bid to keep
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 9:02 am on January 26, 2021
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The meltdown started two weeks ago at Politico and apparently has barely slowed down since. Politico invited conservative commentator and Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro to guest-edit its daily newsletter, which kicked off a company-wide temper tantrum that even got Erik Wemple’s attention.
There are now upwards of 225 people on the @politico Zoom call convened to hash out the decision to invite @benshapiro to guest-write an edition of Playbook. People are very mad, I am hearing.
Nevertheless, Politico’s publisher Robert Allbritton stood by the decision to include Shapiro among its guest editors of its daily newsletter, which also included MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and NBC’s Chuck Todd.
More than 100
Politico employees signed a letter addressed to publisher Robert Albritton complaining about his decision to allow a big meanie named Ben Shapiro to guest-author an edition of the site’s Playbook newsletter. The staffers indicated that they did not approve of the decision because Shapiro says mean things that they don’t like. The letter was given to Albritton just before naptime and right after their diapers were changed.
One editorial staffer told
RedState that Shapiro should not have been invited to author the newsletter because he said bigoted things in the past. When informed that the conservative podcaster had apologized for his comments, the
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