Hope from the Grave?

Today's PARADE MAGAZINE supplement to the daily paper features a cover story that may be the biggest screwup in the supplement's patchy history.

Next to a soft-focus photo of Benazir Bhutto, the cover features this copy:

"Is Benazir Bhutto America's best hope against al -Queda?

"'I Am What The Terrorists Most Fear'

"An interview from Pakistan by Gail Sheehy"

The inside interview by the author of "Passages" discusses Bhutto's role in Tuesday's elections in Pakistan.

Parade.com explains:

"Editor's note: The assassination of Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27 occurred after PARADE’s Jan. 6 issue went to press."


Since the magazine is included with a newspaper, perhaps a press date of less than, say, two weeks before distribution might be a good idea?

How Far Ahead of Deadline is Parade Magazine Prepared, Anyway?

I realize that Parade Magazine and its most prominent feature, Walter Scott's Personality Parade, has to be prepared ahead of the publication date so that it can be stuck inside the Circuit City ad in Sunday papers nationwide. But one would still think that some editor (one of the numerous staff editors listed in the indicia, perhaps) would catch a particular item in today's Personality Parade; and this correction (copied from the Personality Parade Webpage) wouldn't be necessary:

"Editor’s note: In the Feb. 11 edition of “Walter Scott’s Personality Parade,” we reported that 2006 Kentucky Derby champion Barbaro was in stable condition. Sadly, Barbaro developed serious complications after we went to press, and the horse had to be euthanized on Jan. 29."

Well, I guess "stable" is one way to put it . . . .