Newspaper Literally Stops the Presses After Noticing Naughty Lesbian Photo in Paper

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Apr 23, 2012 in News | 10 comments

Somebody from The Cincinnati Enquirer last week got to live out one of my absolute biggest fantasies ever when they ran out of the newsroom down the hall shrieking “Stop the presses!”

And it was all thanks to a naughty, naughty lesbian with a naughty, naughty sign about the naughty, naughty thing she likes to do to the woman standing next to her.

Several thousand subscribers still got printed editions with the naughty, naughty photo that had already gone out to be delivered, which prompted the Enquirer to issue an apology. Editor Carolyn Washburn said, “I am working this morning to understand why this photo was chosen in the first place and why it was not caught sooner.”

You and me both, sister!

We’re torn on this one. On one hand, it’s always funny on a juvenile level to see dirty words show up in unlikely places. On the other hand, anyone who has ever marched in a protest knows the particular strain of frustration that comes with someone hijacking your cause with a ridiculous sign that steers all the attention squarely onto their shoulders and away from the actual point you marched in the first place.

(Editor’s note: You can never go wrong in an equality march with a sign reading, “I don’t swim in your toilet. Don’t piss on my civil rights!”)

Click the image to enlarge enough to read what all the fuss was about and tell us in the comments if you think the newspaper made the right call in stopping the presses.

(via Queerty)

http://www.facebook.com/darkdragonweaver Dale Mulkey

considering how small the sign is and how hard it would be to read in the photo unless you were some troll looking for dirty words, i dont see what the big deal is . it was stupid to stop the presses for this piece

http://www.facebook.com/odinn.celusta Odinn Celusta

It is odd that the mistake was allowed to go that far. I think censorship and obscenity laws are overly restrictive and often dangerous to free speech, but they are in place, and the offending sign should have been spotted and then its an easy fix with a white box or something. Its just a simple, potentially expensive but otherwise uninteresting mistake by the editor of the paper.

Cheyenne Hinds

Its signs like that that dont let people take our protests seriously. We’re trying to make some valid points and vulgarity is no going to sway them in our direction.

Anonymous

Only because people perceive certain words to be “dirty,” and “offensive.”
http://twitter.com/josedenriquez3 Jose D Enriquez III

FYI… conservative groups probably aren’t taking you seriously anyway. Also, protest aren’t pretty, and they are definitely not censored. Get over it.

Anonymous

I do not believe that vulgarity helps our cause at all. Given that many people would like any reason for marches such as this to not take place–why give them one like that?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Crystal-England/1309257288 Crystal England

Yep; I think it was worth stopping the presses over. Too bad it wasn’t caught and could have been blurred. It personally doesn’t bother me as a word, but if we can’t say it on television, then it shouldn’t be in the paper..
http://www.facebook.com/d.capulus Darlene Cunningham

I think the gay community does a lot of things that undermine our cause, but at the same time; we should have the right to do stupid outlandish things the same as any other group and I think ultimately, that is the point.
Anonymous

I’d stop the presses, were they mine to stop . . . let’s be civil and gracious unless there’s a really good reason not to be
http://www.facebook.com/jay.crookshanks Jay Crookshanks

yeah it was a good call on the newspaper editor ……..

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