Newspaper Apologizes for Caption on Web Site

AP via TBO ^ | Nov 12, 2005

[MJY1288]

Get over it! :-)

[decal]

Boy's got a future ahead of him: Headline writer for the NYSlimes - it's not as though THEY have any journalistic standards...

[ncountylee]

Those poor girls, but it's so funny. LOL

[Flux Capacitor]

What's the big deal? I thought joining the girls' soccer team in the first place amounted to coming out as a lesbian.

-Dan

[Michael.SF.]

But, I thought it was OK to be a Lesbian. Why are they so mad?

[Jaysun]

Huh, that's queer. Isn't lesbianism praised, encouraged, rewarded, and respected today?

[taxesareforever]

Yeah, just look at basketball.

[magslinger]

Yes, but he'll never get his dream job of reporting on bat-boy after this, though.

[taxesareforever]

So, scoring and coming out of the closet don't go together?Since when?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

No, your thinking of the softball team.

Cheerleaders are the sluts. Drill team members are the ugly girls who wanted to be cheerleaders, softball team is lesbian, soccer team is the athletic girls who like boys, basketball team is a mix of the softball team and the soccer team.

[hole_n_one]

So, scoring and coming out of the closet don't go together?

I didn't think scoring happened in soccer.

If I'm on the edge of my seat during the final minutes of a 0-0 soccer game it's because I somehow manuvered myself into that position while I was sound asleep.

[RandallFlagg]

Who here still remembers the, "Brainwashedchild.jpg" incident at the Houston Chronicle?

[RandallFlagg]

[hole_n_one]

Excellent example, RF!

[RandallFlagg]

Remember after we discovered it, they changed it to, "bushdo.jpg" within three hours?

NOTHING gets past FReepers!

[Lancey Howard]

Interestingly, the story gives no indication of whether the "copy editor" was a man or a woman.

[taxesareforever]

If I am at a soccer game it is because I got lost looking for a sanikan.

[martin_fierro]

The copy editor, who was not identified

From their website:

    * Paul Steinmetz Editor (203) 731-3361 editor@newstimes.com
    * Paul Sussman Managing Editor/News (203) 731-3369 psussman@newstimes.com
    * Walt VanDusen Managing Editor/Prod. (203) 731-3363 wvandusen@newstimes.com
    * Valerie Roth Special Sections Editor (203) 731-3370 vroth@newstimes.com
    * Kevin Hutson Production Editor (203) 731-3347 khutson@newstimes.com
    * Tony Whyte Night Editor (203) 731-3368 twhyte@newstimes.com
    * Jason Sonski Sports Editor (203) 731-3377 sports@newstimes.com

[BallyBill]

Big deal, journalism has been a joke for years. He takes his job as serious as Dan Rather did.