Karen Peterson was named executive editor in August 2008. She served as managing editor of The News Tribune for three years. She joined the paper in 2000 as suburban team leader. She has been a reporter and editor for newspapers in Hawaii and Indiana, and for an Army publication in Germany. During her husband’s first tour at Fort Lewis in the late 1980s, she wrote for The Lakewood Press and started the monthly Pierce County Parent. She is a board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors. She and her husband, a retired Army officer, have two sons and live in Gig Harbor. Email Karen
Managing editor Dale Phelps has been a senior editor at The News Tribune since 1998. Before coming to Tacoma, he was a copy editor and assistant sports editor for 19 years at The Kansas City Star. He's a past chairman of the Northwest Region of the Associated Press Sports Editors. He lives in University Place with his wife and two children.| Email Dale
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In a column about race and politics (here) columnist Leonard Pitts said that, in the West Virginia primary, Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama "like a red-headed stepchild," attributing the phrase to his father.
Here's what Ralph H. Holland, a TNT reader, said in an e-mail to Pitts:
Dear Mr. Pitts,
I started to read your article as printed in todays (May 26, 2008) Tacoma News Tribune and was at first startled and then flabbergasted at your totally insulting and insensitive use of the phrase " beaten like a red-headed stepchild" !! As a former, now gray and balding, red-headed stepchild it is a insult akin to those which you would find offensive, let alone find uttered in "polite" company.
You should be both ashamed and apologetic to use such a phrase in this age of tolerance.
As a matter of course, and to attune yourself to the insensitivity of this phrase, I would suggest that you read about the Bataan "Death March" of WW II and the treatment of American POW's with red hair.
I would like to assume that your apology will appear in a forthcoming column and look forward to the same.
Leonard Pitts later responded to Mr. Holland, saying:
Please accept my apologies. I had no idea the expression scraped such a raw place. I stand enlightened and I won't use it again.
Yours Truly,
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
