Would you run this pic?

Check Poin's coffee table and get back to me on that one.

It was actually a hoax, but made the rounds on the interweb.

 

Holy fuck.

 

Hoax or not. It gave me the heebie jeebies.

 

That had to be a hoax. Day-um.

 

It's a hoax.

And be thankful nobody came up with a Fudgesicle ad.

 

We had something similar with a picture of the winner of the state beauty pageant. Photographer caught the woman right as she was named the winner, she jumped up and, well, one of her tits was a'poppin. A few copies actually made it off the press before someone saw it and sprinted into the press room.
The news editor that night had a great line -- "That thing has a mind of its own!"

 

Ya obviously haven't scanned the beach volleyball. They had a close up of a brazillian player's "bottom" who was signaling her teammate. The women had a great ass. Not a shot at running it. It was all ass.

 

The Creamsicle ad may have been a hoax.

This wasn't:

 

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

We once caught heat for a front page photo we ran of a scene during rehearsal for a high school play. The actress was being slug forward by a guy and her blouse happened to gap open at the collar, revealing a maybe 1/4 inch strip of her bra strap. We printed all our pages in black and white that day and no one noticed a thing unusual.


A 75-year-old woman called in the next day and ripped us for that 1/4th of an inch of bra strap that you had to make an effort to see. When the editor hung up and explained the call to us including the comment about how we're all a bunch of pervs, I threw out: "None of us noticed but a 75-year-old woman is looking at our paper for bra straps on high school girls. I think I know who the pervert is!"

I'd have to think if this woman looked at the sports page at volleyball and basketball pics (the high school girls wear those racer backs during basketball now), she'd accuse us of selling softcore lolita porn.

 

Agreed that it doesn't tell the story. That photo doesn't look like somebody en route to a medal. It looks -- to the uninitiated and clueless about gymnastics such as myself -- that she has lost her balance, is freaking out about it and is bracing for a horrible fall.

 

yeah, i saw that ... and god bless brazil.

 

Didn't read all the posts, but no, I would not run that photo of Liukin... ever.
Also, I have found a disturbing trend among AP photogs that they want to stare and take pictures of things that are boarder line dirty. See also: picture of Shawn Johnson's butt from last night and every single women's beach volleyball photo that shows just a butt and the signals they send to the server.