Several readers called Monday, upset that the Parade magazine insert in the Sunday News Tribune featured an interview with Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani presidential candidate who was assassinated in late December.

The article featured Bhutto as a vibrant candidate in anticipation of national elections set for today. The elections were postponed after her death.

All 32 million copies of Parade were published and were being shipped to hundreds of newspapers around the nation before Bhutto was killed.

We ran an item in the Dec. 30 newspaper, alerting readers to the untimely juxtaposition that was coming with the Dec. 6 magazine, but we also believed the interview, and her anti-terrorist message as a candidate, retained value to readers even after her death.

As seems obvious now, we also should have run an item in the Dec. 6 Sunday edition, repeating the information about the magazine being printed before her death.

Dave Zeeck, News Tribune executive editor