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Newspaper Apologizes for Caption on Web Site
AP via TBO ^ | Nov 12, 2005

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: oops
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1 posted on 11/11/2005 11:26:25 PM PST by ncountylee
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To: ncountylee

Get over it! :-)


2 posted on 11/11/2005 11:28:14 PM PST by MJY1288 (The main stream media has the wisdom of a new born and the vision of a still born)
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To: ncountylee
Boy's got a future ahead of him: Headline writer for the NYSlimes - it's not as though THEY have any journalistic standards...
3 posted on 11/11/2005 11:28:27 PM PST by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: ncountylee

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


4 posted on 11/11/2005 11:28:49 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: ncountylee

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

-Dan

5 posted on 11/11/2005 11:29:03 PM PST by Flux Capacitor (Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
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To: ncountylee

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


6 posted on 11/11/2005 11:29:43 PM PST by Michael.SF. ('That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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To: ncountylee

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


7 posted on 11/11/2005 11:36:42 PM PST by Jaysun (Democrats: We must become more effective at fooling people.)
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To: Flux Capacitor

Yeah, just look at basketball.


8 posted on 11/11/2005 11:38:47 PM PST by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: decal

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


9 posted on 11/11/2005 11:40:51 PM PST by magslinger (At the end of the day the only truly educated people are autodidacts.)
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To: ncountylee

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


10 posted on 11/11/2005 11:41:06 PM PST by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: Flux Capacitor

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.


11 posted on 11/11/2005 11:42:16 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (I get paid to get in your business.)
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To: taxesareforever
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.

12 posted on 11/11/2005 11:47:50 PM PST by hole_n_one
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Who here still remembers the, "Brainwashedchild.jpg" incident at the Houston Chronicle?


13 posted on 11/11/2005 11:49:22 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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14 posted on 11/11/2005 11:50:48 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: RandallFlagg

Excellent example, RF!


15 posted on 11/11/2005 11:59:02 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one

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

NOTHING gets past FReepers!


16 posted on 11/12/2005 12:00:40 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: decal

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


17 posted on 11/12/2005 12:13:46 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: hole_n_one

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


18 posted on 11/12/2005 1:08:48 AM PST by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: ncountylee
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

19 posted on 11/12/2005 1:09:16 AM PST by martin_fierro (We few. We silly few.)
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To: ncountylee

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


20 posted on 11/12/2005 3:35:06 AM PST by BallyBill (God Bless the U.S. Armed Forces!)
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