17-year-old newspaper columnist canned for patriotism column

blogs.chicagotribune.com — Every once in awhile, we newspaper columnists, raging and fulminating at our keyboards, go too far -- we overstate, we gloss over nuance, we generalize unfairly, we give offense we don't intend while trying to be funny or profound, or we otherwise lose our rhetorical way.If we're lucky, we have an editor who saves us. Mohammad Sagha wasn't. Apr 21, 2008 View in Crawl 4