Posted on 04/23/2004 8:59:26 AM PDT by pookie18
Oops! Coors' photo used in Klan story
New York Times runs wrong picture with murder report
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.
Prosecutors maintain that the Ku Klux Klan plotted to kill White in 1966, in an attempt to lure Martin Luther King Jr. to the state so it could assassinate the civil rights leader.
Watson said she notified the Times after the Rocky Mountain News spotted the mistake.
"I think there will be a correction," she deadpanned.
The Times did not return a call from the News.
Watson said the Times is working on a story about Colorado's Senate race, which has been a national political story since Ben Nighthorse Campbell's surprise announcement on March 3 that he would not seek re-election.
"I'm assuming they were pulling pictures for the Senate story and somehow got them mixed up," Watson said.
"We all have off days."
Of course, off days at the Times usually wind up defaming Republicans. Isn't that special.
"It could have been worse," she joked. "Pete could have been identified as John Kerry."
For that quote, Ill overlook the name Cinamon..
The NY Times....Where every day is an "off day."
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