Golfweek replaces editor over noose

[devilgrrl]

How do assholes like that get fucking jobs?



Golfweek replaces editor over noose

By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer 53 minutes ago

Golfweek magazine replaced the editor responsible for illustrating the current cover with a noose and apologized Friday for its depiction of a Golf Channel anchor's use of "lynch" in a comment about Tiger Woods.

"We apologize for creating this graphic cover that received extreme negative reaction from consumers, subscribers and advertisers across the country," Turnstile Publishing Co. president William P. Kupper Jr. said. "We were trying to convey the controversial issues with a strong and provocative graphic image. It is now obvious that the overall reaction to our cover deeply offended many people. For that, we are deeply apologetic."

Turnstile is the parent company of Golfweek.

The company said Dave Seanor, the vice president and editor of Golfweek, has been replaced immediately by Jeff Babineau.

A copy of the Jan. 19 cover was removed from the magazine's Web site Friday morning.

Kelly Tilghman, in her second year as anchor of PGA Tour coverage on Golf Channel, was suspended for two weeks because of comments she made during the second round of the Mercedes-Benz Championship, when she and analyst Nick Faldo were discussing young challengers to Woods.


more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_sp_go_ne/glf_golfweek_editor_out_8

[RB TexLa]

1. How many people read Golfweek? I've never seen or heard of it

[Orrex]

2. Well, they recently changed their name

to Nooseweek.

[MADem]

6. As the sheep said to the goat, that was BAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!

Amusing, though...but baaaaaaaaad!

[stillcool]

3. Golphers?...

kind of says it all, for me.

[trumad]

4. Really---I love the game of Golf

Let me guess.... you suck at it?

[stillcool]

18. yes I do.

I was around the sport for many years. I attended all the little golf tournaments. One of my brothers went on the European tour with his friend, who had turned pro. The same year he played in the US Open which was exciting. I learned a lot as a spectator, but never actually got past the golf range. I guess I found the clubhouse more fun.

[spanone]

11. i've subscribed for years...that cover is shameful

my copy should be waiting for me at home, i will have to see it in context to their editorial

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. uh, why?

The topic du jour was lynching, why not have a noose on the cover?

[spanone]

15. it only UNDERSCORES what was said and anyone who subscribes knows what was said. imo.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. And?

[MADem]

5. OUCH. That cover is pretty... stark.

The situation was bad enough with the commentary--the cover is a bit of piling on...

Not illegal, but certainly poor judgment.

[Kansas Wyatt]

20. That's it.... I'm forming a PAC to outlaw all nooses.

Everyone send me $20, and email everyone in your address book, asking them to do the same.

What? I want to act like a Beltway Big Shot too.

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[trumad]

7. Actually the editor was trying to shame Kelly Tilghman...and I applaud him for that.

even though it was quite a clumsy way to do it.

[Octafish]

8. Prescott Bush headed the PGA for a while in the 1930s.

Was Hitler a golfer?

[Johonny]

9. Not sure there's anything wrong with that cover

Seems like a graphic illustration of the comment's in the issue that they are discussing. Sure it generates a negative feeling, but there's nothing on the cover that makes me think they wanted to generate a positive feeling. "We were trying to convey the controversial issues with a strong and provocative graphic image" and they got it.

[spanone]

12. the statement was provocative enough....imo

[Johonny]

13. IDK

just printing the statement on the cover probably wouldn't sell many issues.

[politicaholic]

10. Go easy! The golf community hasn't been racist since, like, 2005...

They are still playfully sexist though. I'm sure the editor would have been fine if that was a pair of panties hanging off of a tree.

[karlrschneider]

17. What exactly is racist about a piece of rope?

:eyes:
Judge Parker...

[MADem]

24. Ask Felix Macacawitz Allen--he couldn't figure out what the big deal was, either... NT

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[malaise]

22. Fugg Dave Seanor

This noose crap is getting out of hand. Fire his ass.

[supernova]

23. The Golfing crowd really is out of it aren't they?

Hey fogies with the bogies, wake up and smell the future. It's leaving your asses behind.