The conservative Daily Caller fired its opinion editor after the site published a piece by the right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
Geoffrey Ingersoll, who is editor-in-chief at the Caller, confirmed Saturday to CNN that the Daily Caller’s opinion editor Rob Mariani had been let go.
The news of his firing came following a Facebook post from Yiannopoulos about his short-lived column gig.
“Sad news: The Daily Caller has caved to pressure and cancelled my weekly column after a day, claiming, falsely, they never planned to run weekly contributions from me,” Yiannopoulos wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday. “The Daily Caller is also throwing its opinion editor Rob Mariani under the bus: we are told he has just been fired. I’m disappointed, to put it mildly.”
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