Latourette-Wide Open Update: Zimon Resigns, Blumer Acknowledges End of Experiment

Jill Miller Zimon has resigned from Wide Open and expressed her thoughts eloquently both there and at Writes Like She Talks.

Tom Blumer is very disappointed that I did not confer with him and Dave last night before going public with the LaTourette story, which probably would have been a good thing to do, but he has wished me well (and I him) and has posted a piece at Wide Open acknowledging that the experimental project is effectively at an end.

Bill Sloat of The Daily Bellwether doesn't quote Rep. Latourette directly, but instead "Capitol Hill insiders," who insist that LaTourette did not exert any pressure on the Plain Dealer. I do not believe it for a minute. I was on the ultimate receiving end of the pressure and heard much about it in the weeks before my firing.