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After Dropping Dan Savage, Arkansas Paper Tries A Mexican

october 1, 2010 12:42 pm

Another job stolen by a Mexican.

When we last checked in with the Fayetteville, Ark. paper The Free Weekly (TFW), they were pulling Dan Savage's column after its first week because of complaints from readers and advertisers. Editor Richard Davis went so far as to apologize for making "a grave mistake" in the following week's issue.

Seems as though the paper would like to test the columnist waters again, and is betting that AAN pal Gustavo Arellano will be "far less likely to cause blushing or steam to come out of the ears."

View full article at The Free Weekly