An “arresting image” has left the editor of Golfweek magazine without a job. Editor and VP Dave Seanor was fired today, after the magazine used a picture of a noose on its cover.
In the wake Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman suggesting that Tiger Woods be “lynched in a back alley“, Golfweek magazine addressed the issue by having a hangman’s noose on its cover this week. The headline on the cover read “Caught in a noose“, with the subtitle “Tilghman slips up and Golf Channel can’t wriggle free.”
The cover created a firestorm. According to the Sports Business Daily, “all copies of the magazine were pulled off the floor at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando“, and PGA Tour president Tim Finchem called the cover “outrageous and irresponsible.” Seanor defended the decision to use the noose on the cover, telling USA Today “[w]e chose it because it was an image we thought would draw attention to an issue we thought deserved some intelligent dialogue.”
Surprisingly, the image of a noose did not quite achieve the intellect raising effects intended.
