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October 31st, 2007

Your move…

Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor
Tags: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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There is a story about the conviction of Russia’s “Chessboard Killer” on your website, and on the same page, an advertisement for HP printers that clearly displays a chessboard.

I’m not sure if this is someone in your ad department having a laugh or not, but it’s very inappropriate and disrespectful to the relatives of the people who were murdered.

Peter M.

No, nobody was having a laugh. It was pure coincidence. We removed the ad, although yours was actually the only complaint we received: GBU Editor

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