Newspaper posts offensive caption online
The (Danbury, Conn.) News-Times accidentally ran an offensive caption on its Web page under a photo of a girls' high school soccer team.
The newspaper's Web site published a photograph of the team after a championship-clinching win, but the caption said it was celebrating a teammate's decision to "come out of the closet as a lesbian."
The copy editor who wrote the caption was "goofing around" and didn't realize the caption had gone online, editor Paul Steinmetz said.
The bogus caption stayed on the Web page for a few hours and received a few hundred hits, Steinmetz said. "We couldn't get it off the Web site as fast as we wanted to," he said.
In response to the incident, the newspaper fired the copy editor and now is training more employees to administer its Web site so future errors can be fixed promptly, Steinmetz said.
The newspaper apologized both online and in its print edition, even though the caption appeared only on the Web site.
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