SHOCKING! To say the least! Did you receive PARADE MAGAZINE with your Sunday paper this morning?

[Radio_Lady]

The cover features the full face of Benazir Bhutto, and the headline "Is (she) America's best hope against al-Qaeda?" with a full article by author Gail Sheehy. Sheehy has been on my radio shows a couple of times over the years. Could this be her or her editor's decision? Couldn't they have added somelike an ERRATUM in a book?

Bhutto was assassinated on 12/27/07.

I think they should have called back the whole magazine for something like this. Couldn't they have stopped it before it was included with newspapers on SUNDAY, 1/5/08?







Or am I overreacting?

[KitchenWitch]

1. I saw a thing on the news last week about how they decided to keep the article in

I would have thought that they could have done some editing of the headline though.

[Radio_Lady]

2. Error in judgement in my humble opinion. I'm going to their web site to see if they explain it.

www.parade.com

Thanks for your post, KW.

Here's what they said:

PARADE EXCLUSIVE

'A Wrong Must Be Righted'
An interview with Benazir Bhutto

By Gail Sheehy
Published: December 27, 2007

Editor's note: The assassination of Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27 occurred after PARADE’s Jan. 6 issue went to press.

Bhutto’s murder adds more danger and confusion to the already chaotic situation in this region. Pakistan is vital to U.S. security interests and the global fight against terrorism. In late November, PARADE sent Contributing Editor and best-selling author Gail Sheehy to Pakistan to interview former Prime Minister Bhutto as she campaigned through the country. Bhutto told Sheehy that she had long been a target of terrorists as well as the Musharraf government. She knew she could be murdered at any time.

PARADE’s Jan. 6 interview with Bhutto is one of the last interviews of her complex life.

After her assassination, PARADE immediately posted the entire interview online, and Sheehy appeared on network and cable TV news shows to discuss her face-to-face conversations with Bhutto.

[KitchenWitch]

3. Sure, I forget exactly what the reasoning was, but I was totally WTF? about it.

[Radio_Lady]

4. See the post above to get their "reasoning."

My take on this is that it was economics-driven.

They have BIG advertisements for Wal-Mart, pharmaceuticals, etc. and they didn't want to lose the money. So they made it a "Legacy" article.

Sad.

[lost-in-nj]

5. Sorry I see this differently,

not economics....

I think her story should be out there....
why hide it now?????
LET THE PUBLIC KNOW!!!!!
my paper had a disclaimer today about it...
I heard about this the day after she was killed....

there was no uproar....

people want to know what she said.....

I see no problem with the magazine...
I am glad I have it...


lost

would you have read it if she was still alive??
even with the advertisements.....???

you or anyone else would not have bat an eye

[Radio_Lady]

6. OK. You've convinced me. We were on vacation on Dec. 27th and away from our usual news sources.

I was shocked when my husband mentioned it as a breaking TV story the morning of Dec. 28th, I believe.

FYI, I did read the article today.

>>would you have read it if she was still alive??
>>even with the advertisements.....???

>>you or anyone else would not have bat an eye

My response:

I like to read Parade magazine and have been a reader for many years. If she were alive, I probably WOULD have read it, too.

It might have gone down better if they had placed some kind of a notice on the cover, but I understand that would have been very difficult considering their large print-run. How many people do they claim to reach nowadays?

Thanks for your post, lost. Have a good day.

Sincerely,

Radio Lady Ellen in Oregon

[SPKrazy]

11. I think the fact that any uproar lasted about 1 news cycle

it's good to get the word out that she was the great hope for Pakistan

and now

they're screwn

you are right lost

it was not a bad thing, the story was written

it gives her an epitaph that she wouldn't have had otherwise

:hi:

[MissB]

7. I thought it was tacky too. But if you open the inside of the front page

(as in the front page of the Oregonian, not the Parade), you'll see a note to readers from the editors about the issue.

[CBHagman]

8. I assumed that it was probably packed a week ago.

My local newspaper includes Parade in a sealed plastic packet with advertising, the TV weekly, etc. I just assumed that perhaps it was ready to go more than a week ago and was just never taken apart.

[struggle4progress]

9. For some reason, I am often finding print media stories a week or more behind

Stuff like "Congress to vote on ..." when they voted last week

[otherlander]

10. Yeah

Remember when all those generals were first calling for Rumsfeld to resign? And when the first article about it came out in my local newspaper, I was just going, "Pshh. DU has been discussing this for *weeks*."

[RebelOne]

12. Most of the time it's impossible for a magazine to call back something.

I am a copy editor for hunting and fishing magazines. We work on stories 3 months ahead. Right now, I am doing stories for April. The April issues will be going to press in February. If something changes after a magazine goes to press, it cannot be recalled. All that can be done is for the editor to put a disclaimer in the following issue.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Yes, I guess they must print them weeks in advance.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. One thing that amazed me when I became a newspaper editor

was the inflexibility of the press window. There's no such thing anymore as "Stop the presses!" or "Extra!" The logistics and finances involved don't allow it.

Glenn Close's character of the managing editor in "The Paper" was, sad to say, accurate: "We can be right tomorrow."