Editor sacked for using a picture of one to illustrate a point:
"It's a shame that now-fired Golfweek magazine editor Dave Seanor didn't talk with an expert on racist imagery like David Pilgrim of Rockford before he approved the now infamous cover featuring a noose.
The cover was part of a response by the magazine to a remark made on the air by Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman on Jan. 4 during the Sony Open. She suggested that one way for young golfers to stop Tiger Woods is to "lynch him in back alley."
After seeing the clip on film, it was clear Tilghman was attempting to be humorous. She was later suspended by the Golf Channel, and will return later this month.
Then along comes this cover with a headline: "Caught in a Noose: Tilghman slips up, and Golf Channel can't wriggle free." It made Tim Finchem, the PGA Tour commissioner, very upset. He called the imagery outrageous and irresponsible, and said "it was a naked attempt to inflame and keep alive an incident that was heading to an appropriate conclusion."
Seanor said the cover wasn't an attempt to be racially provocative, but to demonstrate the story that had provoked much comment.
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