Cliven Bundy Ended My Forbes Gig

April 29, 2014
Vickery Eckhoff

... I’d never gotten a word from Forbes editors that there were problems with any of my stories until Friday at 4:53 pm, when I was driving Jane Velez-Mitchell to the summit to be keynote speaker ...

My editor, Jane Lee, who’s been very supportive and great, sent an email requesting some edits to a story — Federal Grazing Program in Bundy Dispute Rips Off Taxpayers, Wild Horses — that went live Friday afternoon.

This story got more views in a single day than any story I’ve written to date ...

For some reason, my story rattled Forbes’ corporate cage and hours later, without so much as a phone call, Forbes pulled the plug. These were the first edits I’d been asked to make in more than two years, I made them as requested in a timely manner and notified them that I had done so. The topic was hardly controversial ...

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