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Article: New Republic owner fires top editor

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September 7, 1997
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The New Republic's owner said Saturday he has fired the political magazine's editor for being "obsessive" about President Clinton's scandals.

Martin Peretz said that more than half of what Michael Kelly wrote in his column was about "this marginal issue."

"His opinions were far from my opinions and the opinions of my staff," Peretz said. "I thought it was very, very strange for a column which traditionally covered a field of American politics to focus in on this."

Kelly said the firing-by-phone came days after he refused to publish an unsigned item by Peretz saying the latest allegations of improper fund-raising by Gore were "overblown and old news."

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