New York Times Won't 'Unpublish' Insensitive Berkeley Article

In spite of being inundated with complaints over their highly insensitive article regarding the awful tragedy that happened in Berkeley on Tuesday morning, the New York Times is refusing to take down or at the very least amend their offensive article in which they classed the J1 programme as an 'embarrassment to Ireland'.

Regardless of the number of complaints to the paper from high profile figures such as Ambassador of Ireland to the United States, Anne Anderson and Equality minister, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, the usually well respected newspaper appears not to go any further than issuing an apology for their inappropriate comments.

Today's RTÉ Morning Ireland featured an interview from last night in which the New York Times public editor, Margaret Sullivan, alluded to the Times' policy of not unpublishing articles, irrespective of their insensitive and distasteful nature and while she said that she was 'very sorry for the pain the story caused' but couldn't apologise on behalf of the paper itself.

Margaret Sullivan interview with Morning Ireland

The interview was conducted before former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese's letter to the newspaper was published in the Irish Times today, however, if Margaret Sullivan's comments are to be believed, a change to the article is still, unfortunately unlikely.