MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2006
Louisville Courier-Journal
"We messed up," admits C-J ombud
Pam Platt. She says a copy editor took New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin's "chocolate New Orleans" reference and changed it to "a majority African American city." Platt writes: "Though the editor's personal sensibilities are to be admired, this time they did not serve the readers, or the newspaper, or journalism. Also, his couching of the mayor's statements made the newspaper a target for familiar broadsides of bias. This time, though, we provided the ammo for the salvos."
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