Heath Ledger doesn't meet most mags' deadlines
Joe Uchill
Paper Cuts
This week, recently-deceased Heath Ledger graces the cover of People magazine – and no other celebrity magazines. Due to an eccentricity of the industry, People goes to press on Tuesday, a day later than all their competitors. Ledger’s
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Mea Culpa Day-After-a-Monday That-Was-A-Holiday
Joe Uchill
Paper Cuts
Yesterday, The Cleveland Plain Dealer ran the rare apology for not using a racial epithet. On Martin Luther King Day.
Neat.
Phillip Morris, whose parents should have known better before naming him, wrote a column about his discomfort hearing a specifi
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Mea Culpa Monday: Ohio State Lantern
Joe Uchill
Paper Cuts
When the Ohio State Buckeyes lost the BCS Championship to Louisiana State University, it was a crushing loss. It marked the second year in a row that the football team lost the title game, and a major embarrassment for a program seeking redemption. Failin
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Mea Culpa 2008
Joe Uchill
Paper Cuts
It's been a long, strange year for this short, regular feature.
Usually, the best media apologies fall into one of a few categories. There are apologies for the things too awful to consider ever happening, like San Francisco's Asian Week printing the st
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MeaCulpa Monday: Montel Williams
Joe Uchill
Paper Cuts
On Monday Montel Williams’ publicist offers to have the mustachioed talk-show host apologize on air to 17-year-old Courtney Scott, after threatening to blow her up.
Williams, whose tact is rivaled only by his hair growth, had walked out of an inte
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