NAMI Condemns Newspaper for Headline About Fire at Psychiatric Hospital

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[Paul Atreides]

Oh please, just have them print a retraction, accompanied with an apology.

[T. P. Pole]

NAMI also is investigating potential legal action

Legal action? For being tasteless?

[pubmom]

It appears they already did print an apology. I guess they weren't sincere enough.

[T. P. Pole]

For what it's worth, here's the apology.

[nemo]

I think the guy is nuts?

[7beuties]

Does this mean that the left wing press has a sense of humor?

[okie01]

"Legal action? For being tasteless?"

Exactly. The Trentonian deserves jeers. And so would a lawsuit mounted by the crushed nuts...

[Brytani]

Ok, I'm sorry but that headline - though one of the most incredibly un-pc I've EVER seen, made me LMAO.

[Vidalia]

Aren't these the same whining liberal Socialists who demanded, screamed for these "mentaly ill, distressed, misunderstood, over-sedated, treated like chickens in a henhouse", etc., etc., to be "set free" and turned out onto the streets of any and every city of the country to give them more "self-esteem"?

[Steve Eisenberg]

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and potentially other federal and state laws, the headline provides prima facie evidence of a hostile work environment for people with mental illnesses or their family members

This claim is a threat to freedom of speech. By the same logic, an employee could sue for a hostile work environment if a conservative newspaper printed a series of editorials lambasting sexual harrassment lawsuits. It is hard to convey (well, maybe not to hard to convey for this audience) how big and bad a step it would be to punish newspapers for creating a hostile work environment with their stories.

Of course, it's tempting to think how this could be used to clean up every smutty magazine in America ;-)

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Since they all got out it would be more appropriate to say "Smoked Nuts".

[IronJack]

Dark humor. Insensitive? Yes. Criminal? No.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Except for that one guy, who was a salted... ;0)

[Winston Smith]

I mean this is funny. In my mind I guessed what this article was going to say before I read it. I couldn't believe I had the same sick mind of the reporter covering the story. But I had to admit, twas a intresting coinage of words to events.

[Militiaman7]

A very good reply. Funny: yes (still laughing) Criminal: no way

[ikka]

Their apology should have been headlined: "Sorry I Hurt Your Nuts"

[Chad Fairbanks]

Either that, or their response should be to quote that general at Bastonge - a one word reply to a demand to 'surrender' - "Nuts!"

[speedy]

Hah -- good one. You may have a future at The Trentonian -- looks like there will be an opening there soon!!! First anthrax, now fire in the loony bin -- a great time to be in Trenton.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

a great time to be in Trenton.

As if having a governor like McGreevey isn't enough of a burden for a state capital.