Washington Post Corrects Photo Caption That Misidentifies Nearly All ‘Joy Luck Club’ Actresses
The paper issued a correction but did not apologize for the mistakeJ. Clara Chan | December 14, 2020 @ 12:28 PM Last Updated: December 14, 2020 @ 12:32 PM
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The Washington Post corrected a photo caption on Monday that misidentified nearly every actress in a photograph from the seminal 1993 film “The Joy Luck Club.”
But when the piece was first published, the caption misidentified the actresses in order as Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao, Ming-Na Wen, Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen and Lauren Tom.
“‘From left,’ nearly every name is incorrect. Tsai Chin seems to be the only one they accidentally got right,” Phil Yu, who runs the Angry Asian Man Twitter account, tweeted on Monday alongside a screenshot of the original caption.