- www.wjla.com March 20, 2010

WASHINGTON – A photograph of two men kissing that ran on the front page of The Washington Post has caused at least two dozen people to cancel their subscriptions.
The photo was taken last Wednesday, the day same-sex couples could apply for marriage licenses in Washington, and ran in the paper the next day. The paper’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, reported on his blog that 27 subscribers canceled their subscriptions, specifically citing the photo.

He wrote that while complaints usually subside quickly, in this case complaints lasted through Tuesday.

Readers suggested that the photo should have been placed in the paper’s Metro section or not run at all. Alexander disagreed and defended the paper’s decision to run the photo prominently.

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