Teh One Who Knocks
01-06-2017, 12:01 PM
By Adam Shaw - FOX News
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If you thought your Thursday wasn’t going well, spare a thought for the design team at The Washington Post’s “Express” – the paper's free daily edition -- who managed to make a front page gaffe for the ages.
The Express’ cover story was on the Women’s March on Washington – an anti-Trump protest planned for the day after Inauguration Day. With a headline of “The modest start of a massive march,” the glitzy cover featured an image of a gender symbol made up of marchers.
Only it was the wrong gender symbol. Someone on the team apparently mixed them up, using the male instead of the female icon.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Shout out to The Washington Post Express who accidentally put the MALE symbol for the WOMAN'S march on their cover today <a href="https://t.co/xGS0XE8RTd">pic.twitter.com/xGS0XE8RTd</a></p>— Kimberly Betsill (@kimmybetsill) <a href="https://twitter.com/kimmybetsill/status/817022868408193024">January 5, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The image quickly went viral.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">They're clueless about a universal 265-year-old sex symbol, but they're qualified to police fake news for you. <a href="https://t.co/d27LOSGFM1">https://t.co/d27LOSGFM1</a></p>— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/817045897372663808">January 5, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Express eventually deleted its tweet publicizing the cover, and quickly apologized.
They also showed how the cover was supposed to look, and later added that a corrected image will be distributed in its print edition on Friday.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We made a mistake on our cover this morning and we’re very embarrassed. We erroneously used a male symbol instead of a female symbol.</p>— Express (@WaPoExpress) <a href="https://twitter.com/WaPoExpress/status/817033542446252033">January 5, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is how the cover should have looked. We apologize for the mistake. <a href="https://t.co/MKKOkHPV8T">pic.twitter.com/MKKOkHPV8T</a></p>— Express (@WaPoExpress) <a href="https://twitter.com/WaPoExpress/status/817033716593790976">January 5, 2017</a></blockquote>
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http://i.imgur.com/oQzSR0S.jpg
If you thought your Thursday wasn’t going well, spare a thought for the design team at The Washington Post’s “Express” – the paper's free daily edition -- who managed to make a front page gaffe for the ages.
The Express’ cover story was on the Women’s March on Washington – an anti-Trump protest planned for the day after Inauguration Day. With a headline of “The modest start of a massive march,” the glitzy cover featured an image of a gender symbol made up of marchers.
Only it was the wrong gender symbol. Someone on the team apparently mixed them up, using the male instead of the female icon.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Shout out to The Washington Post Express who accidentally put the MALE symbol for the WOMAN'S march on their cover today <a href="https://t.co/xGS0XE8RTd">pic.twitter.com/xGS0XE8RTd</a></p>— Kimberly Betsill (@kimmybetsill) <a href="https://twitter.com/kimmybetsill/status/817022868408193024">January 5, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The image quickly went viral.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">They're clueless about a universal 265-year-old sex symbol, but they're qualified to police fake news for you. <a href="https://t.co/d27LOSGFM1">https://t.co/d27LOSGFM1</a></p>— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/817045897372663808">January 5, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Express eventually deleted its tweet publicizing the cover, and quickly apologized.
They also showed how the cover was supposed to look, and later added that a corrected image will be distributed in its print edition on Friday.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We made a mistake on our cover this morning and we’re very embarrassed. We erroneously used a male symbol instead of a female symbol.</p>— Express (@WaPoExpress) <a href="https://twitter.com/WaPoExpress/status/817033542446252033">January 5, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is how the cover should have looked. We apologize for the mistake. <a href="https://t.co/MKKOkHPV8T">pic.twitter.com/MKKOkHPV8T</a></p>— Express (@WaPoExpress) <a href="https://twitter.com/WaPoExpress/status/817033716593790976">January 5, 2017</a></blockquote>
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