PITTSBURGH - This news source regrets very much the error we made in publishing a photograph yesterday of dog feces, taken at the annual Three Rivers Arts Festival. Our reporters covering the event reasonably believed that the image was a work of art intended to be intrusive and disturbing, and not the excrement of an animal wandering about Gateway Center. We chide those pet owners who permit their animals to create such messes at the Arts Festival and thus deceive unsuspecting visitors into thinking they are viewing great art.But alas, the fault lies with us. We should have realized the feces was not a work of art because close examination revealed that no Christian symbols had been immersed in it.
We apologize to those readers who were forced to look at dog feces while eating their breakfast, and we assure our faithful readers that egregious errors of this nature will never occur again.
We are taking a closer look at the photograph we published Saturday of a man urinating in the bushes at the Arts Fesitval. If it turns out this conduct was not "performance art" as we believed it was, we will republish this same heartfelt apology tomorrow.
The Hon. Rufus Peckham
