As of March 12, eight newspapers have dropped right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's column after remarks Coulter made at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where she referred to Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (NC) as a “faggot.” On March 8, Media Matters for America published a list of daily newspapers that carried Coulter's column at the time she made her controversial remarks -- as well as the email addresses of the editors of those papers -- and suggested that readers contact the editors to discuss their papers' decisions to carry Coulter's column.

The eighth paper, the Herald & Review of Decatur, Illinois, announced its decision in a March 11 column, in which Herald & Review editor Gary Sawyer cited Coulter's CPAC comments and asserted:

Most of you will think that we're dropping her column in response to that comment. Some will undoubtedly believe that we're caving in to liberals, who have launched what appears to be a national campaign to get newspapers to dump Coulter's column. Others are probably praising us for finally seeing what's wrong with Coulter's column.

Whatever group you find yourself in, you're partially right.

Sawyer further wrote that “questioning someone's sexual orientation in such a vile way goes beyond reasonable comment,” adding that “Coulter's column has become a one note symphony.” Sawyer also claimed that Coulter “seems to adore the public spotlight a little too much.”

As Media Matters has previously noted, seven other newspapers have dropped Coulter's column since her remarks to CPAC, including:

• The Lancaster New Era (Pennsylvania)

• The Oakland Press (Michigan)

• The Mountain Press (Sevierville, Tennessee)

• The Sanford Herald (North Carolina)

• The Daily Chronicle (DeKalb, Illinois)

• The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana)

• American Press (Lake Charles, Louisiana)

A July 2, 2006, New York Post article about allegations of plagiarism in Coulter's last book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism (Crown Forum, July 2006), reported that her column “is syndicated to more than 100 newspapers.” The following is an updated version of the list Media Matters published on March 8 that takes into account newspapers that have dropped Coulter in the wake of her CPAC comments:

Correction: This item originally listed The Quad-City Times as one of the newspapers publishing Coulter's column based on a link to Coulter's column that appeared on the newspaper's website. However, the Times subsequently informed Media Matters that the paper has never printed Coulter's column.