The U.S. Postal Service needs a copy editor — or, at the very least, an art director or photo editor — to keep it from making blunders like this one, on a brand-new stamp issued earlier this month.
See the problem? Well, neither do I, to be honest. But according to a story in Thursday’s New York Times, that’s not really the Statue of Liberty.
The Times‘ Kim Severson and Matthew Healey reported:
You might think that the post office would have just gone with the original, the one off the tip of Lower Manhattan that for 125 years has welcomed millions of New York’s huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Instead, they accidentally used the 14-year-old statue that presides over thousands of weary gamblers a week.
Yep. In fact, that’s the half-size replica Statue of Liberty at the New York- New York casino in Las Vegas.
Well, damn. How did that happen? The Post Office used a photo from what the Times story called “a photography service.”
In other words: Stock art.
One wonders if it’s a meat-eating Statue of Liberty. (Sorry. That’s an inside joke for regular readers of this blog.)
Thanks to Yuri Victor of the San Diego Union-Tribune for the tip.
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You know who else needs copy editors? Local TV news operations. Chicago’s WMAQ-TV in particular. And other local TV news operations. And Baseball jersey manufacturers. And Kansas State University. And the New York Jets, the Minnesota Vikings, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Nationals (boy, do they need a copy editor). And Fox Sports. And college athletic department ticket offices. And the Virginia general assembly. And college alumni magazines. And pharmacies. And the makers of Sudafed. And Borders bookstore. And Tea Party candidates. And city and county Boards of Elections. And government agencies. And South African traffic cops. And Google News’ ‘bots. And billboard companies. And sign painters. And rubber stamp designers. And restaurants, breakfast joints, Chinese restaurants and cake decorators. And South Africa’s New Age newspaper. And Dublin’s Sunday Business Post. And the Washington Post, the New York Times, the New York Post, Newsday, the Chicago Sun-Times (Hey! A repeat offender!), the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat & Chronicle, the Missoula, Mont., Missoulian, the Waynesboro News Virginian, the Virginian-Pilot, the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the Carbondale, Ill., Southern Illinoisian, CNN and Time magazine. And newspapers in the U.K. And drive-in movie theater managers. And Home Depot and manufacturers of “hoodies.†And T-shirt designers. And road paving contractors.
