A Misfire With Bird Shot?

There’s mixed reaction to yesterday’s Washington Post Style section and its design (the section was made to look as if it had been shot with bird shot…Oh, sorry, you didn’t hear? Yeah, the vice president apparently shot somebody in the face…)

On the Post’s internal critique boards, Associate Editor Gene Robinson wrote:

    [W]hen I saw the page this morning I nearly gagged on my coffee with glee. The buckshot effect is terrific, unexpected and laugh-out-loud funny, especially with the illustration of the quail (which the shooter seems to have missed).

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