Jaw Drop

[trickykitty]

I'm not sure if I should call fucking poor taste or balls of fucking steel for going forward with the printing without any mention of her her assassination regarding the Parade's Sunday article on Benazir Bhutto. The article itself is wonderful and almost brings tears to my eyes, but to print without some sort of insert or post-script regarding her assassination absolutely floors me. At first I questioned it and then discussed it briefly with my roommates, who thought it would talk about what she had done and how her martyrdom will affect the country. Nope. It's her last formal interview, but the article makes no mention of the fact that she is now dead.

channonyarrow, given your position in publishing, I'd like to hear your comments/view on it.

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In the same Parade is the formal announcement for a class action lawsuit against Take-Two for the purchasers of GTA: San Andreas that received copies that included the gratuitous "Hot Coffee" sex scene.

I really wish I could purchase the Martha Washington Cookbook and the Thomas Jefferson Cookbook. I'm a sucker for advertisements. :)

Lastly, I still want to see Stardust.

Comments

[jdack.livejournal.com]

Stardust is out on DVD for rental 'round here. I got it the other week, was ok, but awful cutesy and I ended up falling asleep toward the end.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

It's quite possible that they print Parade ahead of time. My thought on their workflow would be that they create the PDFs and email those to the papers that contract for Parade, which would be supported by the interview being "in late November". It still could have been in the can before she was killed - I know that the newspapers like to have whatever they can done early so that they can focus on getting the things that are done close to publication right - but it surprises me a lot (and I would go with poor taste) that they didn't scrap the print run and send out an amended PDF for the relevant pages they would need to alter. But I would think that they do turn the magazine over to the individual papers for printing, and that throws the time frame out the window. She was killed ten days ago; it's not that hard to alter a PDF and do an emergency reprint in that time frame. I'll be curious to know what they say about it NEXT week. I would imagine they're getting LOTS of comments on that.

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I'd hate to have to be reading their email in-box right about now.