What's the big deal? I thought joining the girls' soccer team in the first place amounted to coming out as a lesbian.
-Dan
Posted on 11/11/2005 11:26:24 PM PST by ncountylee
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - A newspaper apologized and fired a copy editor for posting an online photo of a girls' soccer team that suggested one of the players was a lesbian.
The Immaculate High School team was celebrating a goal scored in a championship game Nov. 5. But the caption on the Web site of The News-Times said the team was celebrating a teammate's decision to "come out of the closet as a lesbian."
"It was a flagrant, awful violation of every journalistic principle," said Paul Steinmetz, the paper's editor. "It's just embarrassing to us and untenable."
The copy editor, who was not identified, was "goofing around" and did not realize the caption had gone online, Steinmetz said. The bogus caption stayed on the Web page for a few hours on Sunday and received a few hundred hits, he said.
The newspaper, which has a circulation of about 33,000 in western Connecticut, is training more employees to administer its Web site so future errors can be fixed promptly, Steinmetz said.
Get over it! :-)
Those poor girls, but it's so funny. LOL
-Dan
But, I thought it was OK to be a Lesbian. Why are they so mad?
Huh, that's queer. Isn't lesbianism praised, encouraged, rewarded, and respected today?
Yeah, just look at basketball.
Yes, but he'll never get his dream job of reporting on bat-boy after this, though.
So, scoring and coming out of the closet don't go together?Since when?
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.
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.
Who here still remembers the, "Brainwashedchild.jpg" incident at the Houston Chronicle?
Excellent example, RF!
Remember after we discovered it, they changed it to, "bushdo.jpg" within three hours?
NOTHING gets past FReepers!
Interestingly, the story gives no indication of whether the "copy editor" was a man or a woman.
If I am at a soccer game it is because I got lost looking for a sanikan.
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
Big deal, journalism has been a joke for years. He takes his job as serious as Dan Rather did.
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