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A letter published in the Times-Picayune:

Re: “Miserable? Hopeless? Dangerous? Readers slam the sportswriter who slimed Metairie,” Living, Jan. 28.
Due to a poor turn of phrase — or lack of a turn of phrase — I seem to have become very unpopular in Metairie for suggesting in a Danny Granger profile that Metairie wasn’t a very nice place.
What I should have written is that Granger grew up in a rough section of Metairie instead of insinuating that Metairie itself was less than a lush, lovely suburb of New Orleans.
I apologize but assure you it was a completely innocent mistake. In journalism, as in life, we make them from time to time. I have absolutely nothing against Metairie. Detroit, now, that’s another story.
Bob Kravitz
Sports columnist
Indianapolis Star Link

From the Times-Picayune article about Kravitz’s column:

… when Indianapolis Star sports columnist Bob Kravitz penned a story on Jan. 18 prior to the Indiana Pacers game against the Hornets, it appears that his senses took leave when he wrote:
“Metairie, La., just outside New Orleans . . . is by almost every account one of the most miserable, hopeless, dangerous places in this country.”

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