Author Chuck Klosterman Backs Up R-Word Apology With $25,000 Charity Donation
The website disabilityscoop.com was co-founded in 2008 by journalist Michelle Diament and photographer Shaun Heasley. Today, Heasley has a heartwarming item about the recent actions of author and New York Times columnist Chuck Klosterman.
Picking up on some local TV coverage late last week in Portland, Maine by Tim Goff, Heasley recaps what happened when Kari Wagner-Peck – the mother of a seven-year-old with Down syndrome – wrote about the author-journalist’s use in past work like this 2008 New York magazine article of the words “retards,” “retard” and “non-retarded:”
Wagner-Peck told WCSH-TV that days later she was overwhelmed when Klosterman not only replied, but owned up.
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