It wasn’t until readers showed outrage that a Pennsylvania newspaper realized its wrongdoing.
On Memorial Day, The Daily Item of Sunbury, PA ran an editorial piece by W. Richard Stover, who thought America needed a “regime change,” and the best way to go about this would be “execution by guillotine, firing squad, public hanging.” Three days later, after a flood of angry reactions by readers, the paper came to its senses and said it was sorry for the “bungle.”