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Asking the right journalistic questions is now enough to get you suspended, if you work for a chicken-shit boss:
Fine has been criticized for his own inflammatory rhetoric over the years, specifically in the wake of the shootings of two Democratic legislators in Minnesota and their spouses. Earlier this year while he was still in the state senate, Fine sponsored a bill to allow concealed carry on college campuses in Florida. The bill, SB 814, failed in committee in a 4-3 vote and was never sent to the Senate floor for debate or a vote.
According to a screenshot posted by Fine, Gancarski asked him if Charlie Kirk getting shot affects your position on campus carry?
If gun control had been in play could the tragedy have been avoided? Gancarski added.
...
Less than an hour later, Peter Schorsch, the founder and publisher of Florida Politics, posted that he had immediately suspended [Gancarski] from his position with [Florida Politics].
https://www.mediaite.com/online/florida-reporter-suspended-after-texting-maga-congressman-to-ask-if-he-still-supports-campus-carry-after-kirk-shooting/
Fine went all over social media literally telling his followers "you don't hate the media enough", and Peter Schorsch then obeyed in advance, like a good German.
Link to tweet
(Note the question was not asked in public, so it was not an attempt to get clicks.)
(via Wonkette)

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