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muriel_volestrangler

(104,632 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 07:55 AM 19 hrs ago

Florida Reporter Suspended After Texting MAGA Congressman to Ask If He Still Supports Campus Carry After Kirk Shooting

Asking the right journalistic questions is now enough to get you suspended, if you work for a chicken-shit boss:

Wednesday afternoon, after news of the shooting had spread but before it was known that Kirk had died, A.G. Gancarski, a reporter with the Florida Politics website, texted Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), a Republican elected to Congress earlier this year in a special election.

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.




(Note the question was not asked in public, so it was not an attempt to get clicks.)

(via Wonkette)
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Florida Reporter Suspended After Texting MAGA Congressman to Ask If He Still Supports Campus Carry After Kirk Shooting (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler 19 hrs ago OP
Fascism. /nt yardwork 19 hrs ago #1
Blatant censorship... GreenWave 19 hrs ago #2
You wouldn't want a reporter who practices journalism, now would you? spanone 19 hrs ago #3
It's pretty obvious that corporate media has failed us BluenFLA 19 hrs ago #4
US Media is the propaganda arm of the Putin/Trump Crime Syndicate. Irish_Dem 19 hrs ago #8
We don't have a free press JBTaurus83 19 hrs ago #5
Substacks oberle 19 hrs ago #7
MAGA is cancel culture newdeal2 19 hrs ago #6
Suspended for doing what reporters *should* do Heidi 19 hrs ago #9
Now might be a good time for Floridians to phone/email/handwrite letters to Fine and ask those questions. Timeflyer 18 hrs ago #10

BluenFLA

(216 posts)
4. It's pretty obvious that corporate media has failed us
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:02 AM
19 hrs ago

With their both siderisms, sane washing and refusing to cover things like Trump's health, they are not to be relied upon and have not been for some time.

JBTaurus83

(642 posts)
5. We don't have a free press
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:03 AM
19 hrs ago

All of these journalists should start joining independent media groups. We may have to pay a small fee for real news now.

oberle

(185 posts)
7. Substacks
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:11 AM
19 hrs ago

Some of the best news and commentary can be found in substacks that require payment. I would rather pay them than WaPo.

newdeal2

(3,960 posts)
6. MAGA is cancel culture
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:05 AM
19 hrs ago

They want to ban free thought, books, and anyone who doesn’t look or think like them.

Timeflyer

(3,399 posts)
10. Now might be a good time for Floridians to phone/email/handwrite letters to Fine and ask those questions.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:06 AM
18 hrs ago

They can't fire us, yet, while we still have elections. His district 6 is just north of Orlando, east of Ocala, along Atlantic coast.

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