Golfweek magazine replaced the editor responsible for illustrating the current cover with a noose and apologized Friday for its depiction of a Golf Channel anchor's use of "lynch" in a comment about Tiger Woods.
"We apologize for creating this graphic cover that received extreme negative reaction from consumers, subscribers and advertisers across the country," Turnstile Publishing Co. president William P. Kupper Jr. said. "We were trying to convey the controversial issues with a strong and provocative graphic image. It is now obvious that the overall reaction to our cover deeply offended many people. For that, we are deeply apologetic."
Turnstile is the parent company of Golfweek.
Wow, the media that covers golf is trying really hard to scare off anybody who's tasted a chitlin. I understand that Golfweek was commenting on the remarks made by Kelly Tilghman of the Golf Channel, joke. Has anybody heard of tact and tastefulness? I can't imagine has a readership of higher than 56-57 people a week and none of them black, so I can see how they weren't expecting such an outcry.
I'm somewhat disappointed though. Why not go the whole nine yards with a cover like that. Throw in an article saying that the mini-series Roots was horrible, revisionist history. An editorial about hip-hop culture and how they fund Al Queda. Claim Al Sharpton to be the logical successor to Dr. Martin Luther King. Call me nit picky, but I just don't like watching something done half-ass.
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