The ‘Bune, sans apologies, leaps aboard the symposium bandwagon

We must credit the New Albany Tribune with moving quickly to extricate itself from the embarrassment caused by City Editor Amany Ali’s colossal gaffe in Sunday’s edition of the newspaper.

For those tuning in late, Ali used the present tense when referring to Louisville’s Hawley Cooke Booksellers, which was absorbed by Borders two years ago. She went on to write that New Albany’s downtown could use a bookstore like the one no longer in operation in Louisville, handily ignoring the existence of Destinations Booksellers.

Yesterday the ‘Bune scrambled endearingly to make amends. First, Ali mentioned the forthcoming “New Visions for Downtown New Albany” symposium at Destinations in her front-page account of Monday’s City Council meeting, then shockingly, the symposium was touted in the newspaper’s editorial slot on page 4A.

The editorial closes with this thought: “People will be talking. That is a good thing.”

Indeed.