Fat-Shaming Column on Airline Passenger gets Columnist fired
The Fergus Falls Daily Journal fired a columnist, Alan Linda, for an offensive column about overweight airline passengers. Linda wrote…
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New York Times Duped by Fake Twitter for General Michael Flynn
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