Obviously, that's more than just an inadvertant mistake, and yeah, my guess is that whoever's responsible for it has joined the great unemployed masses by now.
This is a good thing. Good only in the sense that it is undeniable evidence that overt racism is on the rise, in all quarters of American society. It's terrible that so many authorities are in denial about that.
I agree with 1, 6, 7 and 10. The corrected story with that picture right now is about Thomas Hagan's parole. (The Obama story is no longer accompanied by a picture.) My guess is that there was a glitch/mistake in the application that scrolls through photos and their accompanying headlines that caused the mismatch.
Too bad for whoever got fired for this that it happened to be Malcom X and not the adorable baby foal picture.
The Malcolm X photo does appear quite appropriately in the current WaPo ULHC photo-rotation. As noted @6, this appears to be a garden-variety editorial screw-up.
People who live in Stranger offices should not throw stones.
*Snicker* This does look bad, but considering that it is now in the normal photo rotation on the WaPo site, I really do think that this is just a hilariously inappropriate website coding mistake.
@ 26 - Yeah, it actually was on the front page of the WaPo site, with that picture. They change the pics and stories in the little photo box pretty frequently. Which is why my normally paranoid brain is inclined to think this really was a spectacularly unfortunate mixup.
Hell, I wish Malcolm X WAS the President. He probably wouldn't be supporting policies that are killing innocent people overseas. He'd probably have the balls to admit that the war on drugs hurts African-Americans especially. And he probably wouldn't care if he was a one term President.
Then again, the same things were probably true for Obama before he decided to run for President.
Thank the Maker there are Journalistic Giants like The Stranger around That never ever make mistakes and can call the MSM on it's RACISM ! and Stupidity....
I'm reading this on my tiny little Blackberry screen at the optomotrist's office with dilated pupils and it was still quite obvious that that wasn't Obama...
Guys, before you jump to the conclusion that one of the only decent papers left in the country is run by racists, Malcolm X's assassin was released from prison that day. I'm sure the two photos just got mixed up.
yeah, I guess I can, if today happens to be the day Thomas Hagan, murderer of Malcolm X, was released from prison. http://bit.ly/cVpxYo
Yup. It can happen very easily. Too many pictures on the desktop and an overworked, underpaid editor is movin' too fast.
Kind of sad commentary on the paper.
that there is a tea party redundancy.
Too bad for whoever got fired for this that it happened to be Malcom X and not the adorable baby foal picture.
People who live in Stranger offices should not throw stones.
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Then again, the same things were probably true for Obama before he decided to run for President.
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Another possibility, maybe they mixed this picture up with the picture of the Goldman Exec's they meant to show.