
[Cover of today's Chicago Sun-Times, printed in reverse to promote a campaign fighting gun violence toward children.]
Dyslexia To Save Print
3:12 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By rebecca
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Turning our backs won't help...but writing backwards will?
Tomorrow let's all drink from the wrong side of the cup to fight Balcony Collapse.
For the blind folk?
Invisible ink.
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Sun-Times pressmen drunk, mischievous.
!emaL
Is that for the Annie Oakley demographic?
@With Love and Squalor: Contain that hilarity!
This wouldn't have quite the same impact for Portugal's "Assamassa Radar"
Apparently the Sun-Times is attempting to aggrivate all the gun-owners into shooting the editor. What happens when somebody just stabs him though?
Sun-Times Tries Printing on Transparent Mylar to Look More Digital
There's also an obscene watermark of a duck performing unspeakable acts on a certain cartoon mouse on there.
First Oprah and Harpo, and now this.
We get it, Chicago. Very clever.
A dyslexic, gun-toting killer just broke down on a Chicago sidewalk, sobbing. Everyone else passed by wondering why that newspaper looks funny.
At first glance I thought it was Greek, in an effort to increase the paper's appeal to yet another ethnic community. My mistake--which became clear the minute I held it up to the bathroom mirror.
Wait. What? Nothing funny can be said. It's just stupid.
Yikes, it's not even original...
"He said the reverse front-page idea came from the Bogota, Colombia, daily El Tiempo, which also used it to call attention to gun violence"
@fiveinchtaint: Indeed, I tried to stop beach erosion this way via my personal newsletter, A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama!, and yet the beaches continue to erode.
Breaking: Chicago's stoner population stuck inside newspaper.
But if we turn our backs to gun violence against children it's much harder to aim!
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