'Thickset:' Washington Post offers 'muscular' correction of the day

Oh, dear. Fat-shaming, WaPo? This is what happens when you assign the Style section to cover Gitmo.

https://twitter.com/jasonrmcintyre/status/393009441240805376

I am thickset, not muscular. RT @emmersbrown: Best Wash Post correction ever? Yes. pic.twitter.com/Gy4bOgnCQ0

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) October 23, 2013

@houston_foodie RT @emmersbrown: Best Wash Post correction ever? Yes. pic.twitter.com/mXeVax170H thickset = muscular just like fatass = curvy

— tracyfm (@tracyfm) October 23, 2013

@lisagartner @emmersbrown This made me imagine the phone call that prompted this correction. "I'm not thickset, I'm muscular!"

— Tony Marrero (@TMarreroTimes) October 23, 2013

Assuming that muscular-yet-not-thickset guy threatened to punch out the pencil-necks at the WaPo if they didn't make that correction.

— John McQuaid (@johnmcquaid) October 23, 2013

What is the journalistic euphemism for fatheads?

Background:

some lively comments to @washingtonpost Style piece on #Guantanamo image, including a correction to who is 'thickset' spokesman

— Ben Fox (@benfoxatap) October 16, 2013