Unbeleivable

Via Instapundit, comes this stunner, which not even the Onion could have thought up.

Atlanta Progressive News has parted ways with long-serving senior staff writer Jonathan Springston. Apparently, Springston’s affinity for fact-based reporting clashed with Cardinale’s vision.

And, no, that’s not sarcasm.

In an e-mail statement, editor Matthew Cardinale says Springston was asked to leave APN last week “because he held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy at Atlanta Progressive News.”

Emphasis added. By the way, this is a great example of the passive voice softening a sentence that would be more forceful in the active voice.  I’d have written it like this.

Atlanta Progressive News editor Matthew Cardinale asked Springston to leave APN last week “because he held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy.”

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