And on Twitter:
So anyway… I have resigned as editor of Editorials and Comment for the National Post, effective immediately. I will remain a columnist.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
2. Postmedia executives and I had a professional disagreement. Their view was that the publication of a column by the editorial page editor…
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
3. … dissenting from the Post’s endorsement of the Conservatives would have confused readers and embarrassed the paper.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
4. My view was that that was what I was paid to do as a columnist: give my honest opinion on issues of public interest.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
5. I don’t see public disagreement as confusing. I see it as honest. Readers, in my view, are adults & understand that adults can disagree.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
7. To be clear, the owners and managers of a newspaper have a perfect right to set the paper’s editorial line as they wish.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
8. Likewise they have a perfect right to decide who and what they wish to publish in their pages.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
9. Nobody has a God-given right to be published and the country will get along very well without me telling them how to vote.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
10. My concerns were and are merely a) that there should be no suggestion that I was personally endorsing or voting for the Conservatives.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
11. And b) that I could not do my job as a columnist if I was obliged to stay silent where these conflicted with those of management.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
12. While Postmedia’s intervention was unprecedented in my experience, I could not allow the precedent to stand.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
13. So to protect my reputation and to preserve my editorial freedom as a columnist, I felt it necessary to resign the editorial position.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
14. I think that’s all I need to say on the subject. If anyone’s still interested, I will be voting for the NDP candidate in my riding.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
15. The short-form reasoning: the Conservatives don’t deserve to be re-elected, and the Liberals don’t deserve a majority.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
*6. The confusion, if any, would have been to have left the impression that the paper’s views were mine, or that my views were the paper’s.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 19, 2015
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