Charleston’s Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, The Post and Courier, apologized on Thursday for running an ad for a gun shop on some of its papers Thursday morning, along with a headline about the shooting at a church that left nine people dead.
“The front-page sticky note that was attached to some home delivery newspapers on the same day as this tragedy is a deeply regrettable coincidence. We apologize to those who were offended,” the paper wrote on Facebook in response to a complaint.
Accentuating the irrationality of the Charleston news, the paper puts an ad for a gun shop on the front page today. pic.twitter.com/GyAW4EcKF1
— Jonathan A. Neufeld (@jneuf) June 18, 2015
Nine people were killed after a white man opened fire on Wednesday at a Bible study meeting in a Charleston, S.C., church. Police arrested a suspect, 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, on Thursday in Shelby, N.C.
What is the appropriate waiting period until they go back to business as usual? Just curious.
If I remember correctly after Newtown, it was about a month before the NRA opened the hatches and gave an all clear.
I’m sure all the families of the dead are relieved that now you can get to sleep at night. It must have been bugging them like the Dickens.
Oh, the classic non-apology apology, only to those “offended”
The Ad Manager for this paper should be fired. This isn’t only bad for the newspaper, it’s bad for the advertiser. The Ad Manager should of had the brains to pull the sticker before the editions went out.
That being said, what other country would consider the placement of an ad for guns on the front page of a newspaper be considered “normal”?
Merika’ Fuck Ya!
But on any other day, get your human killing devices at a discount is okey dokey!