ABC affiliate gone wild? Station airs phony, sexually-explicit Paula Broadwell book cover

Dude.

Video at NRO:

OOPS: Local station accidentally airs doctored image of Petraeus biography…title not Twitter-propriate (VIDEO) – http://t.co/0tBL2k2P

— National Review (@NRO) November 13, 2012

No, ABC Denver, Paula Broadwell’s Book is Not Titled ‘All Up In My Snatch’: With a 24/7 news cycle, it’s … http://t.co/hyN7RwpM #bronx

— Bronx, NY News (@Bronx_NY_News) November 13, 2012

Intern gone wild? Or was ABC’s Denver affiliate doing a little New York Post-style editorializing about the scandal involving Gen. David Petraeus and his biographer, Paula Broadwell?

Broadwell’s Petraeus biography is actually titled “All In” (already unfortunate and snicker-worthy).

All In: The Education of General David Petraeus — the cover with Ms Broadwell's pic is suddenly deeply ironic! pic.twitter.com/FD2hbWpT

— EH (@ejazhaider) November 10, 2012

Top tip: When working in local TV, don't digitally alter a book cover to get smutty laughs in the office http://t.co/xkR9E9gy

— Toby Harnden (@tobyharnden) November 13, 2012

The Weekly Standard reports:

A call placed the affiliate’s assignment desk confirmed the unfortunate “mistake.”

“That’s correct,” said the women working the assignment desk, confirming that the wrong book cover had been aired. “It was a mistake.”

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A mistake? Hmm:

https://twitter.com/FBillMcMorris/status/268411531031625728

We have a feeling that “mistake” is likely to cost at least one person.

https://twitter.com/tobyjack/status/268409886931566592

Update:

KMGH news director to @Romenesko: Doctored Petraeus book cover pulled from the Internet – http://t.co/YJs0LQAP

— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) November 13, 2012

The KMGH-TV news director claims, “The editor pulled the image of the book cover from the Internet without realizing it had been doctored