The Sapulpa Daily Herald printed its Wednesday morning paper without a story on the result of the 2008 presidential election.

Protesters outside the offices of the local newspaper in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, a town of just under 20,000 people according to the 2000 census, by the absence of an Obama story when the paper chose to run a paragraph about McCain's majority in Creek County.

Considering the historical enormity of this election and the man it has chosen to guide our country after two tumultuous presidential terms at the turn of our century, I have to agree with the protesters that believe the decision made by this particular news organization displays, at the very least, an unforgivable lack of news judgment and, at the very most, an act of institutionalized bigotry.

Publisher Darren Sumner, argued in defense of the paper's actions, or lack thereof, that readers of the Sapulpa Daily Herald's roughly 5,000 circulation weren't dependent on the paper's election coverage saying he was sure that they read about it, watched it on TV and followed it on the internet.

When one considers the money this little daily could have made by printing a historic front page for future reproductions, these actions, in sound business sense, are downright ignorant.