A horrible day on all fronts ...

Not only that, but the "suits" undoubtedly would blame him for letting such a A1 configuration get in the paper.

 

This is amazing.

 

That's got to be fake/photoshopped, no? I've never seen any golfer react like that in their follow-through.

Unrelated (and probably a better left unsaid thought), that guy isn't packing enough to be impressed about anyway.

 

Dammit.

Apparently, it’s a full-page ad designed to look like a newspaper page:

https://www.mediaite.com/online/thi...ffectively-fakes-coincidental-photo-position/

 

That's the question. If I were in that situation, I'd assume the ad had been approved by the publisher and that any policy had been jettisoned.

 

The advertising staff and the makeup department both should know the policies regarding controversial ads and where they are forbidden to be placed. A good makeup employee should spot such problems when sections are dummied.

 

This is one of those things that almost tripped me up when I first started designing pages. I was really careful that things were tastefully done on each individual page, but at 22 years old almost went to press with a story of a drunk driving accident on one page and the obit for that person on the facing page. Luckily an editor with more experience caught it.

Now that editor probably wouldn't be there to look at that page.

 

I wouldn’t have even noticed the ad for the gun show. I don’t read ads, I never have, so I always find it interesting when a big deal is made about them. My eyes just ignore them.

 

I remember when our eccentric publisher (who thought he was a journalism savant because he had been a Dewar salesman in a past life) used to "threaten" us with front page ads, and that was just more evidence he had no clue.

Today: How quaint.

 

You're right ... if you're going to pose for an underwear ad, you need to be either Dirk Diggler-sized — or use one of these:

 

Indeed. The sad thing? It shouldn't be. But when you strip down the staff and only one person is proofing the pages, if that, this kind of shit can happen. Stuff like this probably happens more than we realize.