Seattlepi.com posted this piece by Vanessa Ho on July 15 at 10:19 a.m.:

If you were looking forward to the itinerant display of skinned, opened cadavers that came to Seattle last year - otherwise known as the "Bodies" exhibit - you might be out of luck.

That's because a Seattle City Council committee voted Wednesday to require that commercial displays of human remains must show proof that the dead people on view consented to being in an exhibit.

The issue arose after the show, "Bodies ... The Exhibition," came to Seattle in 2006 and 2009. The show displays roughly 20 full-body cadavers, which organizers have said come from unidentified, unclaimed bodies in China.

That has led people to criticize the globe-trotting, money-making show for displaying the remains with no informed consent, especially under the specter that profitable organ- and corpse-harvesting of executed prisoners exists in China.

"This is desecration and defamation of Chinese people. This is not educational," said Philip Lipson, co-director of Seattle Museum of the Mysteries, which has been at the forefront of protesting the ethics of the show.

And the Seattle Times posted this, attributing it to "Seattle Times reporter Carly Flandro," the same day at 11:46 a.m.:

If you were looking forward to the itinerant display of skinned, opened cadavers that came to Seattle last year - otherwise known as the "Bodies" exhibit - you might be out of luck.

That's because a Seattle City Council committee voted Wednesday to require that commercial displays of human remains must show proof that the dead people on view consented to being in an exhibit.

The issue arose after the show, "Bodies ... The Exhibition," came to Seattle in 2006 and 2009. The show displays roughly 20 full-body cadavers, which organizers have said come from unidentified, unclaimed bodies in China.

That led people to criticize the globe-trotting, money-making show for displaying the remains with no informed consent, especially under the specter that profitable organ- and corpse-harvesting of executed prisoners exists in China.

"This is desecration and defamation of Chinese people. This is not educational," said Philip Lipson, co-director of Seattle Museum of the Mysteries, which has been at the forefront of protesting the ethics of the show.

Vanessa Ho at Seattlepi.com says she wrote the article and noticed the piece with the identical text "over the weekend." Carly Flandro at the Seattle Times, when asked about the verbatim replication, said, "You know what happened? There was some miscommunication here, because I think—maybe I should wait. I think one of our editors can call you."

UPDATE: Mark Higgins, metro editor at the Seattle Times, says, "The piece that you're looking at is a blog item. Politics Northwest is our politics blog. What happened there was a mistake in communication. I think the PI had blogged a city council committee vote on the Bodies exhibit. It was, at least part of it was, pasted into an email and noted that we should cover this ourselves, and someone mistook that note and thought is was something to be posted, and it got posted on the blog by error, by mistake, and then when it was discovered it was immediately taken down a short time later." I noted that it was still on the blog—I just looked at it—and Higgins said, "It was taken off the blog. If it lives on in some fashion we will try to take it down. This was a simple mistake."

For what it's worth, I think it was a mistake. (A funny mistake.) No harm intended.