Thursday 11 July 2013

The right to anonymity: Epic fail

Traditionally, when newspapers wanted to keep somebody's identity halfway secret, they published a picture of the person in question but covered their eyes with a black stripe.

They don't appear to have read this memo over at The Daily Mail - not only did they include the woman's name in the headline but they put the black stripe over the wrong part of the picture:

2 comments:

DBC Reed said...

Why has Helena Christensen got a dressmaker's dummy? She's not having to make her own clothes surely? Although this may explain her nudity, not being very good at it I'll be bound.The dummy is nowhere near the same shape as her either.

Unknown said...

Yes, but it's roughly the same colour.