Truemors
A Roswell (Georgia) newspaper lost one its major advertisers after publishing cover art showing Democratic presidential front runner Barack Obama in a sniper's cross hairs. The Roswell Beacon, a free weekly in Fulton county Georgia, received complaints after reports of the cover appeared on the Daily Kos blog.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports:
A diarist named "sprialstairs" wrote on Daily Kos, "The article itself is not offensive, but the cover is beyond the pale. As indicated by the article, there are some serious racists in the area, and Obama's candidacy has brought out the worst in a lot of people. The last thing we need is a newspaper to suggest assassination with an incendiary cover such as this."
The article goes on to state
, though the paper's publisher, John Fredericks, said editorial decisions would not be influenced by "liberal blogger thuggery."
The intention of the art was to illustrate the accompanying story about how law enforcement was
handling the increased number of threats lodged against Obama by white supremacist groups, some of whom are based around north Fulton.
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