A woman has been nominated for president. Here’s a picture of her husband

The Chicago Tribune is rightly getting some pushback today for its tone-deaf front page coverage of last evening’s historic moment when a woman was nominated to be the president of the United States by a major party.

How hard would it have been to include a picture of the newsmaker?

Let the Duluth News Tribune be your guide.

The Wisconsin State Journal? What’s your verdict?

“If only the nominee had made an appearance at the convention” you say?

She did.

Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appears on the screen during the second day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Update 11:58 a.m. 7/28-

From my mom who is vacationing in Seattle, an apology in @seattletimes for putting Bill Clinton on the front page pic.twitter.com/W65dT6GeY4

— Kathryn Varn (@kathrynvarn) July 28, 2016

About the blogger

Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.