Guardian dumps Joshua Treviņo
Citing his failure to disclose a major conflict of interest, The Guardian has dumped Joshua Treviño, nine days after it announced it had hired him as a columnist.
The announcement came as outrage from Guardian readers continued to grow over his history of incitement and hate speech directed against Palestinian solidarity activists, Muslims and others.
In a joint statement with Treviño, The Guardian said:
Joshua Treviño wrote a piece for the Guardian on February 28, 2011 titled “Peter King has hearings, but is he listening?” The Guardian recently learned that shortly before writing this article the author was a consultant for an agency that had Malaysian business interests and that he ran a website called Malaysia Matters. In keeping with the Guardian’s editorial code this should have been disclosed.
“Under our guidelines, the relationship between Joshua and the agency should have been disclosed before the piece was published in order to give full clarity to our readers,” said Janine Gibson, editor-in-chief, Guardian US.”
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/guardian-dumps-joshua-trevino
Joshua Treviño is a American. [citation needed] Formerly a consultant and conservative political commentator and United States Army officer. He is Vice President for Communications at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He is a former George W. Bush Administration speech writer[1] and was listed as a 2006 Lincoln Fellow with the Claremont Institute.[2]
Before joining the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Treviño was founder and president of Treviño Strategies and Media in Sacramento, California, where he worked on national and international media campaigns, and served as communication manager for California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s 2010 campaign for the United States Senate. Prior to his current role, Treviño was an associate in Booz Allen Hamilton's international health business. He has held positions in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services as an international communications coordinator and speechwriter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Treviño
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