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-Great Cultural Revolution
Simon and Schuster staffers call for Mike Pence memoir to be canceled
2021-04-28
[NYPOST] Simon & Schuster Red Guards employees want the publisher to stop doing business with Trump administration officials — starting with Vice President Mike Pence.

In a letter Monday to Simon & Schuster’s top executives, more than 200 cadres staffers called on the company to cancel a recently announced memoir by Pence and to also refrain from signing any more book deals with Trump administration officials.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the letter — addressed to Jonathan Karp, Simon & Schuster’s CEO, and Dana Canedy, publisher of its eponymous flagship imprint — demanded the company not treat "the Trump administration as a ’normal’ chapter in American history."

It was signed by 216 insiders and included signatures from more than 3,500 outside supporters, including Jesmyn Ward, a two-time winner of the National Book Award for fiction, according to the report.
Fire them
The petition also asked Simon & Schuster to cancel its distribution deal with Post Hill Press, a conservative imprint that plans to publish a book by a cop involved in the no-knock raid that killed Breonna Taylor, and which has a number books deals from authors pushing "stolen election" conspiracy theories.

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Posted by:Fred

#5  As the mooks working for K. J. Rowling's publishers learned - staffers are easily replaced.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-04-28 12:17  

#4  It was signed by 216 insiders and included signatures from more than 3,500 outside supporters

Human Resources and Twitterheads.

Apparently they have enough time to goof off; time to get rid of 2/3 positions and replace the remaining with shipping pounders who know what is really going on.

Fk'em.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-04-28 11:49  

#3  When you hire Leftists, pick Leftist authors and choose a Leftist readership...
Posted by: magpie   2021-04-28 08:54  

#2  ^-- Obviously they are not in the publishing business, but the propaganda business.

See also FacistBook, Twits, etc...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-04-28 08:41  

#1  Nobody should be more opposed to censorship than a person working in the publishing business.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-04-28 08:13  

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