AL.com opinion writer picks an unusual target: His own newsroom

GRAPHIC THAT ACCOMPANIED JOHN ARCHIBALD’S COLUMN CRITICIZING A TRIPP SKIPPER COLUMN If you wrote a bad Yelp review of your employer’s product, you’d probably get fired. But newsrooms are weird. Some of them tolerate dissent like that. AL.com, for one.John Archibald, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the state’s leading news website, wrote a column Tuesday calling out his own organization for publishing an Aug. 30 commentary by political consultant Tripp Skipper headlined “Auburn is getting a new mosque. Tommy Tuberville warned us to pay attention.”The premise of Skipper’s piece was that elected officials of Auburn, where Skipper lives, have not sufficiently expressed their views on residents’ concerns about traffic, parking and the size of the new development. But most readers would conclude that the writer was endorsing Tuberville’s repeated public statements about dangers posed by radical Islam and that Skipper sees that claim as relevant to the Auburn mosque…