Newspaper publisher may cancel AP membership over firing
By Shay Totten | Vermont Guardian
posted March 29, 2006
Editor's Note: This story was updated at 3:15 PM, March 29 to reflect additional comments from the News Media Guild.
ST. ALBANS — The publisher of the St. Albans Messenger is requesting information about how to cancel its membership with the Associated Press unless the wire service explains why it abruptly fired its Vermont bureau chief.
“It is with regret that I make this request, but it appears to be the best means by which I can register my displeasure with the Associated Press and its dismissal of Montpelier Bureau Chief Christopher Graff,” wrote Emerson Lynn in a March 25 editorial.
Lynn’s open letter marks the start of a new round of calls on Curley to explain Graff’s firing to the news organizations that are paying members of the AP cooperative.
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