In the wake of right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's recent remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference about Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, at least three newspapers -- The Lancaster New Era (Pennsylvania), The Oakland Press (Michigan), and The Mountain Press (Sevierville, Tennessee) -- have decided to drop Coulter's nationally syndicated column from their opinion pages, according to an article on Editor & Publisher's website.
A July 2, 2006, New York Post article about allegations of plagiarism in Coulter's last book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism (Crown Forum, 2006), reported that her column “is syndicated to more than 100 newspapers.” Media Matters for America has compiled a confirmed list of daily newspapers that currently carry Coulter's column:
Newspaper | State | Editor | Contact |
(El Centro) Imperial Valley Press* | CA | Brad Jennings | |
(Palmdale) Antelope Valley Press | CA | Jana Treece | editor@avpress.com |
Pasadena Star-News | CA | Steve O'Sullivan | steve.osullivan@sgvn.com |
(West Covina) San Gabriel Valley Tribune | CA | Steve Scauzillo | letters.tribune@sgvn.com |
Whittier Daily News | CA | Linda Beckman | letters.tribune@sgvn.com |
(Yreka) Siskiyou Daily News | CA | Jean Smith | editor@siskiyoudaily.com |
(Jacksonville) The Florida Times-Union | FL | Patrick A. Yack | pat.yack@jacksonville.com |
The St. Augustine Record | FL | Jim Sutton | editor @staugustinerecord.com |
The Villages Daily Sun | FL | Larry Croom | larry.croom@ thevillagesmedia.com |
(Canton) Cherokee Tribune | GA | Barbara Jacoby | bjacoby@cherokeetribune.com |
Marietta Daily Journal | GA | Joe Kirby | letters@mdjonline.com |
(Twin Falls) Times-News | ID | David Cooper | http://www.magicvalley.com/ |
(Bloomington) Pantagraph | IL | Bill Wills | letters@pantagraph.com |
(Carbondale) The Southern Illinoisian | IL | James Bennett | james.bennett @thesouthern.com |
(DeKalb) Daily Chronicle Coulter Dropped4 | IL | Inger Koch | |
(Decatur) The Herald & Review Coulter Dropped5 | IL | Dave Dawson | |
(Joliet) The Herald News | IL | Bill Wimbiscus | heraldnews@scn1.com |
(Springfield) The State Journal-Register6 | IL | Mike Matulis | mike.matulis@sj-r.com |
(Gary) The Post-Tribune | IN | Paulette Haddix | editor@post-trib.com |
(Warsaw) Times-Union | IN | Gary Gerard | news@timesuniononline.com |
Bastrop Daily Enterprise | LA | Mark Rainwater | mrainwater @bastropenterprise.com |
(Lake Charles) American Press Coulter Dropped2 | LA | Brett Downer | |
(Shreveport) The Times Coulter Dropped1 | LA | Craig Durrett | |
(Jackson) The Clarion Ledger | MS | David Hampton | dhampton@clarionledger.com |
(Lumberton) The Robesonian | NC | Donnie Douglas | dbdouglas@carolina.net |
The Sanford Herald Coulter Dropped3 | NC | Billy Liggett | |
(Gallup) Independent | NM | Darrel Beehner | ga11p1nd@cnetco.com |
Elko Daily Free Press | NV | Jeffry Mullins | editor@elkodaily.com |
Las Vegas Review- Journal |
NV | John Kerr | JKerr@reviewjournal.com |
Lancaster Eagle- Gazette |
OH | Antionette Taylor-Thomas | ataylort@nncogannett.com |
(Mansfield) News Journal | OH | Carl Hunnell | chunnell@nncogannett.com |
The Lawton Constitution | OK | David Hale | paper@sirinet.net |
(Greensburg) Pittsburgh Tribune- Review |
PA | Colin McNickle | cmcnickle@tribweb.com |
(Uniontown) Herald- Standard |
PA | Paul Sunyak | psunyak@heraldstandard.com |
(Wilkes- Barre) Times- Leader |
PA | Jean LaCoe | jlacoe@timesleader.com |
The Denton Record- Chronicle |
TX | Mike Trimble | mtrimble@dentonrc.com |
Marshall News Messenger | TX | Phil Latham | platham@coxmnm.com |
(New Braunfels) The Herald- Zeitung Coulter Dropped5 |
TX | Douglas Toney | |
Plainview Daily Herald | TX | Kevin Lewis | 1kevin @plainviewdailyherald.com |
The Waco Tribune-Herald Coulter Dropped5 | TX | John Young | |
(Harrisonburg) Daily News- Record |
VA | Peter Yates | pyates@dnronline.com |
(St. Johnsbury) The Caledonian- Record | VT | Dana Gray | grayd@caledonian-record.com |
Watertown Daily Times | WI | John McFadden | news1@wdtimes.com |
(Waukesha) The Freeman6 | WI | Bill Yorth | byorth@conleynet.com |
(West Bend) Daily News | WI | Jill Badzinski | dailynews@conleynet.com |
Casper Star-Tribune | WY | Clark Walworth | clark.walworth @casperstartribune.net |
Readers may want to contact the editors of these newspapers to discuss the papers' decisions to carry Coulter's column. Readers may also contact Media Matters if they know of newspapers that carry Coulter's column that are not on this list.
1 The Times of Shreveport has also dropped Coulter's column.
2 Update: Brett Downer, editor of the American Press, informed Media Matters for America on March 8 that the newspaper "dropped Ann Coulter on Monday," three days after Coulter made her comments.
3Update: Billy Liggett, editor of The Sanford Herald of North Carolina, informed Media Matters on March 9 that the newspaper “will no longer run Coulter's column.”
4Update: The DeKalb, Illinois, Daily Chronicle released a statement on March 9 announcing that Coulter was “no longer welcome in the Chronicle,” as Media Matters noted.
5Media Matters noted on June 15, 2007, that these papers had also dropped Coulter's column.
6Media Matters noted on June 15, 2007, that these papers had added Coulter's column.