An Australian fashion magazine has backtracked and apologised after coming under fire for using an image of a lingerie model on all fours to advertise an internship.
The ad, posted to Instagram, has been taken down after being slated in the comments section for being a bad idea on SO MANY LEVELS.
The black and white pic, over which the words ‘;INTERNS WANTED' were printed, was not mentioned at all in the caption beneath. “We are on the hunt for fashion interns," it proclaimed. "Email your CV to sundayfashion@newslifemedia.co.au or tag friends who might be good candidates..”.
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Sunday Style is a title owned by News Corporation; run of course by Rupert Murdoch - a man already under heavy fire for suggesting all Muslims should be held responsible for the terrifying attacks in Paris last week.
The mag's apology post reads: “We made an error in judgement today with an image used in a recent Instagram post calling for interns that has since been taken down. We take our intern program seriously and apologise for any offence caused.”
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Other arms of Murdoch's empire have also been making bad calls this weekend: in addition to his own stupid tweet, a segment on Fox News claimed that Birmingham, UK, is controlled by only Muslims.
