{"id":1130624,"date":"2021-12-18T13:58:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T18:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130624"},"modified":"2021-12-18T13:58:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T18:58:42","slug":"editor-fired-by-new-york-times-over-alleged-vulgar-voicemails-to-gun-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/editor-fired-by-new-york-times-over-alleged-vulgar-voicemails-to-gun-rights-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor Fired by New York Times over Alleged Vulgar Voicemails to Gun Rights Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feditor-fired-by-new-york-times-over-alleged-vulgar-voicemails-to-gun-rights-group%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130624&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Editor&nbsp;Erin Marquis was fired by the New York Times Friday over vulgar voicemails she allegedly left for a gun rights organization following the November 30, 2021, Oxford High School shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Marquis was an editor for <em>NYT\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;Wirecutter website.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On December 3, 2021, Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/03\/new-york-times-michigan-2a\/\">noted<\/a> that Marquis became&nbsp;aggravated after receiving an email from Great Lakes Gun Rights following the Oxford High School shooting, then allegedly called the pro-2nd Amendment organization and called them \u201cf*cking a**holes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The email said: \u201cGreat Lakes Gun Rights urges the Legislature to reject the politically-motivated calls for more gun control and to instead focus on life-saving policies that allow law-abiding citizens to be their own self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FOX News&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/new-york-times-journalist-gun-association-alleged-voicemail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that Marquis allegedly responded by calling Great Lakes Gun Rights and leaving a voicemail that said:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>Hi, I\u2019m a journalist with the New York Times. I\u2019m just calling to wonder. I have two questions. How do you sleep at night? And aren\u2019t you just a bit worried that there might be a hell? And when you meet God, He will send you there? That\u2019s just my only question. The third question, the only people politicizing this seems to be you because you\u2019re the only people I got a f\u2014ing press release from.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Marquis allegedly added, \u201cAgain, I am from the New York Times, and I\u2019m letting everyone in the New York Times know what kind of f\u2014ing a\u2014holes you are. Congrats on being a laughing stock. You f\u2014ing ghouls. I hope that there is a God in heaven, so He judges you when you die.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18967898\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"40\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18967898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236922705.jpg\" alt=\"A student holds a candle during a vigil after a shooting at Oxford High School at Lake Pointe Community Church in Lake Orion, Michigan on November 30, 2021. - A 15-year-old student opened fire at his Michigan high school on November 30, killing three teenagers and wounding eight other people before surrendering to police, authorities said, in what was the deadliest US school shooting so far this year.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student holds a candle during a vigil after a shooting at Oxford High School at Lake Pointe Community Church in Lake Orion, Michigan on November 30, 2021. \u2013 A 15-year-old student opened fire at his Michigan high school on November 30, killing three teenagers and wounding eight other people before surrendering to police, authorities said, in what was the deadliest US school shooting so far this year. JEFF KOWALSKY\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <em>New York Post<\/em> now <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/17\/new-york-times-fires-editor-for-profane-gun-group-voicemail\/\">reports<\/a> that Marquis is no longer with the <em>NYT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>NYT<\/em> released a statement regarding Marquis\u2019 termination: \u201cThe employee has been terminated from Wirecutter following our investigation related to inappropriate behavior\u2026We expect our employees to behave in a way that is consistent with our values and commitment to the highest ethical standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement also said, \u201cRepeatedly invoking the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019s<em>&nbsp;<\/em>name in an unprofessional way that imperils the reputation of Wirecutter, The <em>Times<\/em>, and all of our journalists is a clear violation of our policies and cannot be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>&nbsp;and the writer\/curator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u00a0Erin Marquis was fired by the New York Times Friday over vulgar voicemails she allegedly left for a gun rights organization following the November 30, 2021, Oxford High School shooting. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}