Just a day after News Limited announced the tabloid’s axing, an unfortunate headline in MX newspaper saw social media run hot.
The paper, distributed for free to public transport commuters in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, was axed on Thursday.
• Kokkinakis trumps Tomic in five epic sets
• No more MX newspapers
And by the looks of it, MX – focused on light news, sport and entertainment – are intending to go out generating plenty of discussion.
MX’s match report on Thanasi Kokkinakis’ five-set win over fellow Australian Bernard Tomic at the French Open was headlined with ‘Bernie chokes on Kokk’.
The poor innuendo generated plenty of reaction on Twitter, but it wasn’t all bad:
Dick jokes. Just another reason why we’ll miss @mX pic.twitter.com/35yEQer6kb
— Stephen McCambridge (@StevieGMac) May 29, 2015
@mX going out in a blaze of glory pic.twitter.com/CKPq7NTFFJ
— SERGIO DERANG0 (@SERG1O_D) May 29, 2015
Geez I’m going to miss the puns and classic “head”lines once @mX stops printing pic.twitter.com/9gpvuSAlQG — Nathan Middlebrook (@nmiddl10) May 29, 2015
Looks like MX is not going to go quietly @danjohnson1979 @bazmcalister @BaxterSally pic.twitter.com/O7LCfG621S
— Sean Keeley (@seanrkeeley) May 29, 2015
Looks like @mX is going out on a low high. #FrenchOpen pic.twitter.com/bBfUnzCuNT
— Sid (@koomai) May 29, 2015
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