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Top Messenger Executive Accused of Homophobic Slur

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Sources with direct knowledge of the incident say a leader at the site used a disturbing insult to describe editor-in-chief Dan Wakeford.

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Photo illustration of a ripped open envelope with a wax seal with the Messenger logo on it, with Jimmy Finkelstein, Dan Wakeford, and Richard Beckman.
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Richard Beckman, the former president of the now-defunct The Messenger, made a homophobic slur about the doomed “centrist” news site’s Editor-in-Chief Dan Wakeford in management meetings, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

Beckman, who earned the nickname “Mad

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