Former USA Today Editor Warns Ganett: You're on the "Road to Ruin" by Canceling Half of the Country

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David Mastio has spent a lot of his career climbing theUSA Todayediting ladder in various stints for 25 years, but it stopped badly with tweets. .. 

Mastio was released last week on, and the New York Post was demoted as a sub-editing page editor by declaring on Twitter in August 2021: I argued about how to do it. Women are also pregnant.

He says it was in response to USA Today's report that trans-gender men could become pregnant. 

Citing the uproar inspired by the staff's "LGBTQ activists," Mastio said USA Today Editor-in-Chief Nicole Carroll and editor-in-chief Kristendel Guzzi bring him to the meeting. He invited him and said he had informed him of his new things. His job description and $ 30,000 salary cut. If he deletes the offending tweet, he warns that "she won't cut my salary so much."

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"I signed because I have two kids to take care of, and as you know, I needed a job," Mastio said in an interview with Fox News Digital. Told to. 

"Three strike memos" to Mastio by Carol and Delguzzi a few weeks later, thinking the problem was solved It was sent. He has never been reprimanded for "two failures so far" and warned that another failure would lead to his firing. 

The two strikes he allegedly won were editorialized byDonald Trumpas "not suitable for cleaning the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library." It was when I wrote it. Apparently offended the management community, it was blown up by a fact checker when he published an editorial from President Trump.

"It was then that I hired a lawyer," Mastio said. 

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{60 After his lawyer sent a letter to USA Today, they raised his title from an opinion writer to a columnist and fully restored his salary. rice field. But he knew he still had to get out of there. 

"USA Today has always been a place to welcome conservative vocalists and welcomed my opinion, and as you know, I'm no longer like that. I didn't feel it was a good place, so I had to leave 
, "Mastio said. "And I certainly didn't mean to be promoted again, and I wasn't going to be the editor of the next edit page, so you know, they're the next time I fail I said I would be fired. 
thought it would be better to leave before being fired. "

As of March when Mastio left USA Today. He said he did not leave many allies in the newspaper and that "a significant number of conservatives" who worked in the newsroom were sacked or accepted the acquisition. For years, he was "replaced by young, cheap, awakened workers."

Mastio's dramatic departure is a continuation of journalists kicked out of the media organization due to liberal politics and awakened ideology that hijacked newsrooms such as The New York Times' Bali Weiss and New York's Andrew Sullivan. Following trends in magazines, and Intercept Glenn Greenwald. Mastio told Fox News Digital that he "clearly sees similarities."

"The atmosphere of USA Today has certainly changed over the years of the Trump administration, and the broad, mainstream journalistic atmosphere has changed over the years of Trump and is far more combative. I became intolerant, anyone who opposes the Orthodox, "Mastio said. 

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It was always clear from his writing that Mastio was not a fan of Trump, he said, "Impeachment as much as you can get," and if Trump is elected, "I hope he's impeached," recalls an article I wrote in July 2016, in transition.

"You can't be more anti-Trump than I am, and I wasn't accepted by USA today," Mastio said. 

Mastio first started as a news assistant on the Opinion Page on USA Today in 1995 after graduating from the University of Iowa. After becoming an assistant editorial page editor, he joined The Detroit News. Detroit News was owned by USA Today's parent company, Ganett, as a correspondent in Washington, and returned to USA Today as an editorial writer until he left the dissertation in 2002. He worked on various publications, returned to USA Today as its commentary editor in 2012, and was promoted to Deputy Editor Page Editor in 2015. 

Former editors talk about USA Today's awakening transformation after theWashington PostI was forced to speak. To counter the liberal prejudices of our readers, we have published a report on how Ganett is shrinking newspaper editorial pages. 

He was particularly angry with what his ex-boss Kristen Del Guzzi said in the post. "This is part of the evolution of the industry as a whole ... The Opinion page evolves like the last part of the newsroom."

"I thought it was terribly untrue. And that made me want to say something, "Mastio told Fox News. "The conservative editorial page has been closed and replaced with a national liberal editorial page ... and the opinion sections circulating across the country have evolved significantly over the last decade, and readers have determined they are not. I thought it was good, so I thought I needed to talk. "

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Mastio was puzzled by Ganett's campaign to shrink the edit page to "eliminate all conservatives" and "as if this was the solution to the problem." , Closing all liberals. "

"The solution to this problem is to have an edit page that reflects the values ​​of the community in which is active, so if you are in Arizona, Texas, Ohio or Iowa. That is, there is a conservative opinion in your opinion section, and the solution is not just a dozen syndicated columnists, but the actual people in the community who work for the newspaper as full-time staff. But the solution is expensive, and as you know, Mr. Ganett has decided that the cheaper solution is to get rid of the opinion altogether. " 

Mastio had to receive diversity in Gannet I hinted at training. His New York Post work states that he, as a "cis hetero white man," realized that he would eventually be well due to his unique privileges. He told FoxNews Digital that the training included a fingerprint of critical race theory. This is a controversial school that examines how race influences the power structure and institutions of the United States and downplays the minority.

"It really started to get worse about three years ago, and as you know, critical race theory is woven into it all over," he said. .. "They probably had a 10-minute section on one of these training courses on microaggression, and if you know, if you have a little bit of a college campus, put me around the corner. The left-wing culture that sends is this idea of ​​microaggression. As you know, it's just that, it's so ridiculous. You, by definition, they are micro, we always offend people and make people angry. I'm writing something upset. Worry about microaggression.

"As you know, no one is worried about microaggression against people in professional life, how to cover things or how to cover traditional Christians. We are all. It's for microaggression of Wazu. ".

Since leaving USA Today, he has been the editor-in-chief of the digital publication Straight Arrow News, hoping readers to "treat both" and "old-fashioned straight news." In honor, "he believes Ganett isn't doing. 

He hopes to be able to save Ganett from himself by speaking. 

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"I did this I hope Ganett will react and change course before it's too late. " "There are a lot of really good people and really good journalists in Gannett's newspapers. I think they are on the road to ruin by canceling half of their readers and half of their potential customers. Gannett is saved because he has much more good stuff than this little group of loudly awakened journalists and is driving it into the ditch. " 

Gannett says Fox News. Did not immediately respond to your comment request. 

Fox News' David Rutz contributed to this report.