Thursday 18 June 2015

Charleston paper slammed for gun range ad on a story about deadly shooting

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Subscribers of the Charleston Post Courier were outraged to find a sticker advertising a local gun range on the front of their morning paper on Thursday, just hours after a What we know about Dylann Roof, the Charleston shooting suspect

The ad was stuck to the front of the newspaper, directly atop an article about the shooting. Subscribers called the ad "insensitive."

Charleston Post & Courier hard copy today came with an ad for a gun range on front page (h/t their Facebook page) pic.twitter.com/jnz60lWgyK

— Reid Wilson (@ConsultReid) June 18, 2015

The paper has apologized in a response to a message left on its Facebook page highlighting the ad. Read more...

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