The Washington Post Express caught all sorts of grief Thursday morning after it mistakenly used the male symbol in artwork accompanying its cover story about the Women’s March on Washington.
Here’s how the original cover artwork looked:
Here’s a quick crash course in the gender symbols (via the very accessible Wikipedia):
The Express’ headline read, “The modest start of a massive march.” The subhead read, “More than 150,000 people supporting women’s rights have signed up for a rally in Washington the day after the inauguration. It all began with a Facebook post.”
Though the story itself may prove interesting, the details of the report got lost in the fact that the Express’ artwork used the wrong gender symbol, despite the amount of work that apparently went into creating that artwork.
The Express, which is the Post’s free daily newspaper, issued a correction later Thursday morning.
“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,” they said.
This is what they should have published, they said:
It’s good that they caught the mistake and issued an apology, but, really, how did an editor not catch the problem before going to print? Also, does this mean they’ll run a correction on the front page of their next issue?
