Axios Reporter Fired After Calling DeSantis Press Launch ‘Propaganda’

Axios fired certainly one of its reporters after he responded to a press launch from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) workplace by calling it “propaganda.”

DeSantis’s press launch highlighted a Florida Division of Schooling occasion the governor hosted that got down to expose the “diversity equity and inclusion scam in higher education.”

The press launch learn:

These ideas are by no means inclusive, and as a substitute drive exclusion and division inside greater schooling, and don’t in any manner contribute to studying or data. As such, no funding from hardworking, tax-paying Floridians, together with the dad and mom of higher-education college students, needs to be spent on these divisive initiatives.

Nonetheless, Axios’s Ben Montgomery dismissed the press launch as “propaganda,” in keeping with an email made public by Florida Division of Schooling communications director Alex Lanfranconi.

“This is propaganda, not a press release,” Montgomery wrote on Monday in response to an e-mail with the press launch.

On Wednesday, Vainness Honest reporter Charlotte Klein reported that Axios parted methods with Montgomery on Monday.

Axios editor-in-chief Sara Kehaulani Goo confirmed Montgomery’s departure in an announcement.

“This reporter is no longer with Axios. Out of respect for our employees, we do not discuss conditions of departure,” she mentioned.

Though she didn’t give a purpose for Montgomery’s firing, it’s suspected the outlet decided he violated ethics coverage that each one staffers should “maintain professionalism with all sources” and “respect and be civil to all people we have contact with,” in keeping with Fox Information.

Montgomery seemingly disregarded his firing, joking on Twitter that he “made crepes this morning for the first time in years.”

“Some personal news: I made crepes this morning for the first time in years. Strawberry compote and whipped cream. They were delicious,” Montgomery tweeted in response to Klein’s tweet.

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