I know I’ve bent my no-blogging-about-work rule all to heck this month, but this story was too good to pass up.
My editor took a call an hour or so after press time today from an irate customer who was furious about the photo on page 6A.
“I had to tear out that photo before I let my children look at the newspaper,” she said.
The photo in question was not taken by our staff. It was submitted by the members of a local organization who had attended an out-of-town banquet. One of the women (and only one) was wearing a low-cut dress. It was, I will have to admit, a very low-cut dress. Our editor tried to placate the woman as best she could, pointing out that we didn’t take the photo.
What was the offending organization, you might wonder? Who were the coven of exhibitionists trying to despoil the previously-spotless minds of our nation’s teenage boys?
Why, the Daughters of the American Revolution, of course.
The DAR: it’s all about the cleavage.
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