It strikes a thinking person as a bit like forecasting a ban on baseball, apple pie, and daytime naps, but a couple of days ago ESPN.com published a story that claimed the Obama administration would soon ban all fishing, commercial and recreational.
The story resulted in a variety of rants, defenses, objections and free-wheeling analyses, and in the ensuing melee, it appears to me that ESPN changed the headline on their story–written by Robert Montgomery, a Senior Writer for BASS Publications–from “Obama Will Ban Fishing” (if memory serves) to “Culled Out.”
“ESPN outdoors editor Steve Bowman issued an apology yesterday afternoon, saying the article should have been clearly identified as commentary, not news, and should have had more balance. The Web site has since altered the article and added a header identifying it as an opinion piece,” reports Allison Winter of The New York Times.
