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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts) Fri Jan 4, 2013, 01:19 PM Jan 2013

Epic Fail: Sandy Hook, gun shows, and a page from a local paper

A page from yesterday's Stamford (CT) Advocate:

Story: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shot-ads-article-1.1232364

Accident? Deliberate?

Ugh.

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Epic Fail: Sandy Hook, gun shows, and a page from a local paper (Original Post) WilliamPitt Jan 2013 OP

Statement from the Stamford Advocate... SidDithers Jan 2013 #1

this is appalling samsingh Jan 2013 #2

The same thing happens here on DU. cleanhippie Jan 2013 #3

A newspaper form of Fox news. n/t L0oniX Jan 2013 #4

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)

1. Statement from the Stamford Advocate...

Reply to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2013, 01:31 PM

Jan 2013

http://blog.stamfordadvocate.com/stamford411/2013/01/03/advocate-apologizes-for-gun-show-ad/

Paul Farrell, group publisher of The Advocate’s corporate parent Hearst Connecticut Media Group, issued the following statement regarding the placement of an advertisement for an upcoming gun show next to a story about the reopening of Sandy Hook Elementary School:

“Our newspapers should not be running gun ads — including ads for antique and collectible gun shows — next to stories about Sandy Hook. It’s insensitive, and it shouldn’t have happened. It was an oversight, and we apologize for it. We have taken steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Kind of a weak apology.

Sid