Oops our bad, Pete...

[insein]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/election/article/0,1299,DRMN_36_2830932,00.html

Oops! Coors' photo used in Klan story
New York Times runs wrong picture with murder report

By Lynn Bartels, Rocky Mountain News
April 23, 2004

Thursday's New York Times misidentified GOP Senate candidate Pete Coors as a Ku Klux Klan member who murdered a black sharecropper.

The Coors campaign found the error "so outrageous it's kind of funny," said spokeswoman Cinamon Watson.

"It could have been worse," she joked. "Pete could have been identified as John Kerry."

The Times story concerned a federal court decision upholding Louisiana resident Ernest Avants' 2003 conviction in the slaying.

The story indicated the accompanying photo was of Avants. But the picture actually was of Coors on the day the Golden beer baron announced he was running in Colorado's open Senate race.

Coors' picture ran on page 21 of the A section in the Times' national briefs package.

"Yea our bad Pete, we just Sladered your good name by associating you with the KKK. What we meant to do was just aimlessly call you a racist since your a Republican. Not actually link you with the KKK. Our bad." -NY Times

How can they get away with this garbage.

 

[winston churchi]

Yes a mistake. So what must we think of the New York Times now? Unorganized? Uncoordinated? Miscommuncations?
An inablity to actually tell the correct story with the correct photo?

Either they have a very stupid crew, or an even dumber chief.

 

[Avatar4321]

Yeah but still. it could have been worse. they could have confused him with John Kerry.