Comments on: Breaking News: Golfweek Editor Fired For Noose Cover Shot (More to come)

By: Mahabon48

Mahabon48 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:36:41 +0000

This is how you know that her statements, or the statements of Imus, or any other commentator are not just a mistake or a slip of the tongue. How many times have any of us heard someone in the media “slip” and say something derogatory about the Jewish people? What if the commentator on the golf channel hd said,” they should take Tiger out back in an alley and gas him like Hitler did the Jews”! She would have been fired instead of suspended. When someone doesn’t value your worth as much as theirs, there will always be these so-called slips! When a nation doesn’t value your worth, there will always be suspensions!

By: meg

meg — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:58:11 +0000

They fired the Senior editor but never said who came up with the idea in the first place. I think much like anything else if you don’t go to the root of the problem and just try to band-aid it by getting rid of one person you allow the problem to continue. I am not complaining about the firing though, as he did have last say in the choice.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:04:11 +0000

Even Imus got rehired, so I think you’re correct. But this picture stirred people more than the original comment by the reporter. Even Mike Greenberg was blasting the decision to print that picture.

By: 19082008

19082008 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:57:11 +0000

I think Kos is right. The editor may become some sort of free-speech martyr after a cooling-down period, and he’ll get another chance.

By: R aka JDubb

R aka JDubb — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:02:07 +0000

Nahh, I think the editor will be the only lamb left to the slaughter. I am already catching flak from some of my more less than pecan brown skin employees saying that Sharpton is always stir up trouble and everyone is making this ant hill into a rollercoaster

Now only if someone other than Sharpton or Jesse someone who is truly respected in Golf circle would come out and condem the ignorant remarks made the sparked this whole thing who could do it hmmmmmmm

By: Cheap Shots #93: Protecting Their Own. « Signal to Noise

Cheap Shots #93: Protecting Their Own. « Signal to Noise — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:57:45 +0000

[...] competition handled the issue — and finds a vast improvement. UPDATE!!! — TSF leads me to AP copy saying Golfweek’s editor and VP just got the axe for that [...]

By: origin

origin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:37:58 +0000

But hold on shouldn’t some more heads roll. The editor wasn’t the only one who saw this article before it hit the self.

By: origin

origin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:36:54 +0000

Good………………but Kos is right the fool won’t be unemployed for long.

By: kos

kos — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:21:02 +0000

Glad to see this site and others like it can make a difference. Only thing I hate, he’ll probably be hired by some other magazine in a small time frame and eventually, everyone will say Golf Week over-reacted to pressure from a bunch of bloggers and special interests groups. The typical things they do to sweep things like this under the rug.