Privates on parade: Radio Times issues apology

The Radio Times has been caught not so much with its pants down, but with a commando's flies open:

"It has come to our attention that an apparently innocent photo of the Royal Marines’ 42 Commando unit – printed by Radio Times in good faith... contains the sight of one of the marines playing a prank... What we took to be the marine's finger proved, on closer inspection, to be another part of his anatomy."

The apology became the subject of a Twitter trend, but the best tweet by far came from within the ranks of the Radio Times and the account of editor Ben Preston:

Surely there's nothing that offends a man's pride more than being told somebody would need glasses to see your manhood. It would certainly be the low point of any date.

Comments

[Louisebolotin]

You can easily see it with the naked eye, so Preston's being a bit economical with the truth. But, I probably wouldn't have done more than glance in passing at the pic if it hadn't been talked up on Twitter...