KMGH Apologizes for Profane Petraeus Book Cover

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KMGH Denver has apologized for showing an image of a doctored book cover making profane light of the David Petraeus-Paula Broadwell snafu. In its 5 p.m. news on Nov. 12, the ABC affiliate showed an image of Broadwell's book, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. But the image, obtained online, had been doctored to read "All Up In My Snatch."

The clip then went viral.

Jeff Harris, KMGH news director, called it "a regrettable and an embarrassing error."

"We have corrected the story to avoid any recurrence of its broadcast," he said. "We are following up internally as well to avoid a repeat of this inexcusable oversight."

Scripps acquired KMGH in the McGraw-Hill acquisition in 2011.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.