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Guardian fires Treviño

 This just in: Joint statement from the Guardian and Joshua Treviño

Joshua Treviño wrote a piece for the Guardian on February 28, 2011 titled “Peter King has hearings, but is he listening?” The Guardian recently learned that shortly before writing this article the author was a consultant for an agency that had Malaysian business interests and that he ran a website called Malaysia Matters. In keeping with the Guardian’s editorial code this should have been disclosed.

“Under our guidelines, the relationship between Joshua and the agency should have been disclosed before the piece was published in order to give full clarity to our readers,” said Janine Gibson, editor-in-chief, Guardian US.

“I vigorously affirm that nothing unethical was done and I have been open with the Guardian in this matter. Nevertheless, the Guardian’s guidelines are necessarily broad, and I agree that they must be respected as such,” said Joshua Treviño.

We have therefore mutually agreed to go our separate ways and wish each other the best of luck.

Once again, all credit to Ali Abunimah, who highlighted the issue of Treviño’s work for Malaysia Matters in his article last weekend at Al-Jazeera. See Ali’s comments on today’s news here.

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Guess he needs to spend more time with his family.

Well done, Ali. So he was an agent for Malaysia and Israel. Funny how it was the Malaysian connection which provoked the outrage.

That was quick.

A big “HIGH FIVE” to Ali Abunimah!

What are we to make of this? I confess, I don’t have a clue.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/the-guardian-drops-joshua-trevino-133138.html