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Did Business Week rip off a 1994 cover of The Economist? The latest issue of Business Week, which discusses the merging of Continental and United Airlines, depicts two planes flying through the sky in tandem, positioned in an unmistakably sexual manner. The text above reads, “Let’s Get It On,” as if the analogy wasn’t clear enough already. Cute … except it looks very familiar. The Economist already had that idea, and they used it almost 20 years ago. The September 1994 edition of the UK mag features one camel mounting another, with the text “The trouble with mergers” plastered above.

Did Business Week rip off a 1994 cover of The Economist?

The latest issue of Business Week, which discusses the merging of Continental and United Airlines, depicts two planes flying through the sky in tandem, positioned in an unmistakably sexual manner. The text above reads, “Let’s Get It On,” as if the analogy wasn’t clear enough already.

Cute … except it looks very familiar. The Economist already had that idea, and they used it almost 20 years ago. The September 1994 edition of the UK mag features one camel mounting another, with the text “The trouble with mergers” plastered above.

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    Poor Bloomberg copycats…..bad luck eh?
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    Cute … except it looks very familiar. The Economist already had that idea, and they used it almost 20 years ago. The...
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    the Economist’s idea off. They were inspired by it and then they improved on it.
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  14. doubleadoublek said: I don’t know how there’s really a discussion. Richard Turley (Bloomberg Businessweek’s Creative Dir.) cited the Economist cover as a point of reference. richardturley.tumblr.co…
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    I’m only reblogging this because I saw “almost 20 years ago” and then “1994” and at first I was like “well that can’t be...
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