Brendan Nyhan

Warning: Great art inside

Romenesko flags this hilarious advisory from the News & Observer, a newspaper based in Raleigh (see a PDF of the front page):

From the Page One left rail “Advisory to Readers”: “Today’s Life, etc. section includes a photo of a famous fresco by Michelangelo that includes nudity.”

The picture of the Sistine Chapel (which appears below) accompanies an innocuous-looking story about a religion survey:

Sistine_chapel

Hide the children!

Update 9/17 12:03 PM: Via Romenesko, N&O public editor Ted Vaden reports on his blog that only one person was upset:

So far, only one person didn’t like the art. Two others tch-tched The N&O for feeling that a warning was necessary