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Title: The Washington Post Cross-Dressing Shoplifting Story Misfires
Post by: Shana A on October 20, 2009, 10:44:42 PM
Post by: Shana A on October 20, 2009, 10:44:42 PM
The Washington Post Cross-Dressing Shoplifting Story Misfires
Posted by Amanda Hess on Oct. 19, 2009, at 9:17 am
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/10/19/washington-post-cross-dressing-shoplifting-story-misfires/ (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/10/19/washington-post-cross-dressing-shoplifting-story-misfires/)
In its first story on the suspects, the Post wrote that "an off-duty county officer shot and wounded two women." In the second story, the Post corrected the record: the suspects "turned out to be men rather than women," Staff Writer Martin Weil wrote. Weil explains:
It was believed at first that the two who were shot were women. But they "turned out to be males dressed in female clothing," Officer Henry Tippett, a county police spokesman, said early Sunday.
Posted by Amanda Hess on Oct. 19, 2009, at 9:17 am
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/10/19/washington-post-cross-dressing-shoplifting-story-misfires/ (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/10/19/washington-post-cross-dressing-shoplifting-story-misfires/)
In its first story on the suspects, the Post wrote that "an off-duty county officer shot and wounded two women." In the second story, the Post corrected the record: the suspects "turned out to be men rather than women," Staff Writer Martin Weil wrote. Weil explains:
It was believed at first that the two who were shot were women. But they "turned out to be males dressed in female clothing," Officer Henry Tippett, a county police spokesman, said early Sunday.