Look very carefully… (Image via Getty)
So this came up a couple weeks ago and we haven’t addressed it yet. We published a quick story on the subject of antitrust law. We slapped an image on there from Getty Images and never really thought about it again. It’s hard finding images we have the rights to use that convey the concept of “antitrust.”
It’s a less popular subject for graphic designers than you might think.
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Anyway, we used this particular image, which we’d used several times over the course of the last several years. But look a little closer…
Yeah, that’s not how you spell antitrust.
After multiple uses of this image, Professor Dan Epps finally pointed out what none of us had ever thought to proofread — the image itself:
Ok but why is “antitrust” misspelled in the book in the picture Chris
— Dan Epps (@danepps) April 11, 2022
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We’d like to say this was a long-running secret contest and Epps secured the grand prize, a copy of the Lost Commentaries of William Blackstone recovered from a crypt deep beneath Whiteacre estate where the author says “on second thought, it is actually more like nine guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.” Alas, it was not a contest, we just overlooked it like everyone else had for years.
The whole thing reminded me of the classic scene from the movie American Psycho — a scene endlessly shared as a meme — that somehow hid a legal typo for THIRTEEN YEARS before anyone noticed.
That’s also not how you spell “acquisitions.”
In any event, we now retire this antitrust image forever (or at least until we want to be ironic about it). Farewell.
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.