Can you imagine how many more papers we’d sell if we used headlines like this on page one?
Fortunately — or unfortunately, depending on your point of view — that’s not really the headline. That was just an extremely awkward wrinkle on that particular copy of last Thursday’s Detroit Free Press.
Here’s what the page was supposed to look like:
What can you do about snafus like this?
Not a damn thing. Except laugh when they happen. And then talk shift about them.
Charles Apple is a freelance visual journalist and instructor. A longtime news artist and designer, he is the former graphics director of the Virginian-Pilot and the Des Moines Register. He teaches design and graphics workshops and seminars and spends way too much time online. Read more ...
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Its funny how they also changed the top right article from Snyder to Troy Davis?
Different editions, most likely.
In the first paper Troy Davis is also whiter and older.
My coworker took this picture and i sent a copy of it to several people I know who work at Ford. It is aamzing how this picture has been picked up in multiple locations on the internet
Sometimes a newspaper publisher will publish the front page on the website before copies are even printed. Thus, if a more important event occurs the newspaper will replace the current article with a new one and will be seen in the paper edition but not the online one. But it’s still crazy that this “one” copy had that. Maybe the paper boy wanted to share his opinnion.