Discovery Girls Magazine Publisher Apologizes for Swimsuit Article
A Facebook post tripped up by the use of the word "confident."
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again. Since we all make mistakes, it’s all about how someone apologizes in the face of one of those missteps.
In that regard, we think Discovery Girls publisher Catherine Lee has done a fairly poor job addressing the harsh social media criticism sparked by the piece above, which counsels her pre-teen readers on how to look good in a bathing suit. Via Facebook, she sets things up fairly solidly with these first two sentences:
It’s still hard for me to believe that an article so contrary to our magazine’s mission could have been published on our pages.
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