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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: epicure who wrote (4895)11/5/2000 8:23:40 AM
From: John Carragher  Read Replies (2) of 10042
 
Paper pulls story on GOP

By Associated Press, 11/5/2000

AN FRANCISCO - The San Jose Mercury News pulled its
magazine from today's newspapers because an anti-GOP cover story,
to run just two days before the election, raised concerns about fairness,
editors said.

The newspaper's executive editor, David Yarnold, sent a memo to staff
members Friday saying that today's issue of the SV (Silicon Valley)
magazine lacked balance and that the decision to yank it was ''unfortunate''
and ''embarrassing.''

The cover story of the magazine was an essay by a Mercury News reporter
and lifelong Democrat, David Early, in which he wondered how anyone he
liked or admired could be a Republican.

The Mercury News enlisted employees from all departments on Friday to
remove 200,000 copies of the magazine that had been inserted for today's
editions. The cost to remove the magazines was not known; its
advertisements were to appear elsewhere in the newspaper.

The essay would have been fine if it had run three months ago, Yarnold said,
and he told staffers that Early was a dedicated writer and that the action had
not been intended as a criticism of him.

A message for left for Early at the newsroom yesterday was not immediately
returned.

This story ran on page A34 of the Boston Globe on 11/5/2000.
© Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company.
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