WaPo Editor Defends Palin Op-Ed

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
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The Washington Post‘s opinion page editor defended the decision to run an op-ed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

“She is someone who stirs discussion and we are in the business of putting out opinion. She reached out to us,” the editor, Autumn Brewington, told Editor & Publisher.

Palin’s op-ed, published Wednesday, called for President Obama to boycott international climate change talks in Copenhagen. It also called into question man’s role in global warming and focused heavily on a series of leaked emails that climate change deniers say prove a conspiracy to hide evidence that the climate is cooling.

Brewington said Palin wrote an email to the newspaper Monday night. When editors saw her email Tuesday morning, they decided to publish her op-ed the next day.

“If we were going to use it, we had to use it immediately,” she said. “It was a quicker turnaround than is often the case. But we made the decision based on news.”

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