Golfweek Fires Editor

Did anyone else see where Golfweek fired the editor who came up with the idea for the noose cover? Amazing, but NOT surprising. What's other's thoughts?

 

Just one firing? Hell, the whole company usually signs off on a cover.

 

That's pretty ironic.

 

Didn't see that. Who was the editor? And unless he pushed it through against everyone's objections, I don't see how it's one person's fault, though I guess the top dog gets the blame.

 

Don't mag covers get approved by those at the top of the masthead, including the publisher?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/sports/golf/19magazine.html

Golfweek magazine, which published a cover with a noose set against a purplish sky to illustrate its coverage of a controversial comment about Tiger Woods, announced Friday that it had fired Dave Seanor, the editor who approved the cover.

 

The idea that anybody OK'd that is beyond me. It's unfortunate that only one person took the fall, but at least one person did.

 

Oh, well, congrats to new editor Jeff Babineau, I guess.

 

Did everyone miss the memo? Journalism is dead. If you write something advertisers don't like, you either fire the people responsible or they pull their advertising. My favorite quote is Finchem saying that Golfweek is attempting to inflame a situation that is coming to a "proper conclusion." Says who...I don't think it's come to that conclusion. When dies Finchem get fired for allowing The Golf Channel to hire Tighlman?

 

I think the KKK is planning a picket... ;D

 

GolfWeek is a shill. That's the problem.
This is a news reactionary cover over the Kelly Tilghman comment. She kept her job.
We can argue the level of execution or concept or taste. What's not in question is the newsworthiness.
To think Dave Seanor made that decision in a vacuum is naive.