Lee Ann Colacioppo
Denver Post Editor Offers Lame, Insulting Defense For Removing 'Social
December 16th, 2013 9:15 AM
Earlier this morning, Joe Newby at NewsBusters posted on the Denver Post's scrubbing of the word "socialist" from a fellow student's description of Karl Pierson, who police say shot two other students and then took his own life at Arapahoe High School on Friday. The Post story originally said that classmate Thomas Conrad described him as "a very opinionated Socialist." Sometime later, the Post…