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5. More about Keith Burris below. You should consider self-deleting this OP.

Controversial editorial director Keith Burris promoted to executive editor of Post-Gazette

Burris has received criticism for his editorials on race and other editorial decisions, as well as rebukes from the union representing P-G employees.

Burris, who was installed by P-G publisher John Block to take over the opinion section last year, is best known as the author behind a now-infamous editorial titled "Reason as Racism." The piece argued that calling someone a racist is "the new McCarthyism" and that the only people that can be deemed racists are mass murders like Dylann Roof, who killed nine people in a church because they were Black. That editorial provoked a significant backlash from Pittsburgh's foundation community and even the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, the labor union that represents P-G employees.

It was also under Burris that cartoonist Rob Rogers was fired for what Rogers said were his critical cartoons of President Donald Trump. Rogers was replaced by cartoonist Steve Kelley, who recently received criticism for drawing three sexist cartoons within one week.

Block has defended the opinion section's sharp shift to the right in recent years, and says he believes there are people in the Pittsburgh region who appreciated the far-right content. One of them is KDKA talk radio host Wendy Bell, but most chatter on social media condemns the P-G's new tactics, mostly because the P-G was considered the city's left-leaning paper for decades.

https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/controversial-editorial-director-keith-burris-promoted-to-executive-editor-of-post-gazette/Content?oid=13719507