Comic porn
This is perhaps the sexiest error we’ve seen yet. A comic strip, Prickly City, included a link to a URL that was unregistered at press time. But just a few hours after the strip appeared, an enterprising pornographer registered the site and promptly threw up some push-push content. It is made all the more scandalous because the comic strip in question “offers a conservative perspective on political and social events within an ongoing storyline,” according to the UPS website. Editor and Publisher has the full scoop on it, and here’s a correction notice that ran in The Chicago Tribune:
In Tuesday’s, Wednesday’s and today’s preprinted Tempo sections, the comic strip “Prickly City” contains a Web address, or URL, that links to a pornographic site. In a statement released Wednesday, the strip’s provider, Universal Press Syndicate, explained that at the time the strip was filed, the address was “fictional and satirical” and led to an unregistered site. “Regrettably,” the statement continued, “this site was registered midday on Oct. 19 following its appearance in the strip that morning. This URL now leads to an adult Web site.” The syndicate added that it is “reviewing its policy of running fictional and unregistered URLs within its content.” Tomorrow’s strip has been corrected to eliminate the Web address.
Anyone out there know what the URL was? Email us. For research, of course.
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