How typical for WW ...
Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Wed, 08/30/2006 - 8:27am.

Willamette Week commits this kind of faux-pas quite regularly. The problem is that the editors there are a bunch of middle-aged cultural conservatives trying desperately to sound young, hip and edgy like the Mercury. Since they are none of those things in real life, it's no wonder they keep putting their feet in their mouths. Past episodes are too numerous to count but include using a group of all black kids as the photographic backdrop for a school violence story; a cartoon featuring the Pope calling himself the N-word; and the use of the callous phrase "six feet under" to describe gallery pioneer William Jamison when he died of AIDS. This latest is just par for the course.

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