The editor of the suburban Philadelphia newspaper, Shane Fitzgerald, who as O’Neill pointed out “has since been given even greater responsibility” (Fitzgerald is now Gannett’s Pennsylvania editor for the USA Today Network in charge of 14 PA newspapers and one in New Jersey) removed him after public pressure and media outlets from Levittown to Philadelphia tried to chase him down for comment, though unfortunately he successfully evaded and stonewalled them, avoiding any scrutiny as to how this could have happened. He reviewed my background, accomplishments and achievements along with some mistakes and mis-fires and drew his un-solicited (sic) conclusion.” “The editor reconsidered his opinion and called me ‘a good man,’” O’Neill wrote. The appears to have removed a member of their citizen advisory panel who has some raced-based blog posts, made insulting comments against women, pushed conspiracies, and also promoted what seem to be white supremacist views.- Tom Sofield January 30, 2019 In all transparency, I was the “idiot” who helped start the clamor in January 2019 after the announcement, though I had a lot of community support. “The editor of a local newspaper who has since been given even greater responsibility decided to remove me from the editorial board after appointing me because of the clamor from idiots who were part of a great concentration of similiar (sic) idiots.” ![]() In a blog post titled “ Why I Took My Data Down,” which apparently Bill O’Neill forgot to take down, he wrote: While the country is raging against racism, the newspaper’s editor called a local reader well-known for his racist views to say he is a “good man.”Īs people protest against racist police violence and impunity in at least 140 cities across the country, Bucks County Courier Times’ editor took time to speak at length with a man who believes “ the white race is in the midst of a genocide against white people” and that it’s a “ myth that all races are about equal in intelligence” to express regret that he removed him from a community reader advisory panel.
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