The New York Daily News, Edited By St. Peter

According to the New York Daily News, the big story yesterday wasn't the sentence handed down to Zacarias Moussaoui dictating that he would get life in prison, not a death sentence. That, after all, only got announced in small type on the cover. No, the big news was that HE'S STILL GOING TO HELL. Just curious: How do you think they sourced that?

(New York Daily News)

[vincenzof]

Alphaa10: You need to re-read your history books. Yellow Journalism were articles of propaganda and opinion masquerading as news and such. This is clearly labelled as an editorial. HUGE difference and maybe you need to go back to the textbooks to understand.

[vincenzof]

Someone can assert that Santa Claus found Osama bin Laden with the help of his elves if they want in an editorial as long as, like it is on the cover, clearly labelled as such.

[alphaa10-2009]

The Moussaoui verdict deflates the martyr-driven impetus of al Qaeda for just a nanosecond-- long enough to redirect their crusade (pardon, jihad) against other Western outrages, real or imagined. The jury did its job quite well, with probity and amazing insight into a complex situation. As compelling as the anguish of 911 still is, the presecution's emotionally inflammatory case did not distract the jury from its primary mission-- what responsibility did THIS man, under THESE circumstances, have for 911? There was no lynch mob here, but a truly shining moment for the system of justice in America. It can use a few more.

[alphaa10-2009]

The NTDN front page, single-paragraph editorial reminds me of how the Age of Yellow Journalism in America got its start. Though we may smirk. today, to read the clearly biased, "Rah, Rah for Our Side!" headlines from the Spanish American War era, that style was much nearer today's FOX News "perpetual-editorial" and its GOP Glee Club chorus of O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. The owner of Fox, Rupert the Reprehensible, had a very raunchy reputation from the start, and quite a few in the British/UK press turned up their noses when he crashed their neighborhood. Murdoch's wife once warned him, if he displayed another topless cutie in the inside page, she would be the former Mrs. Murdoch. Looking the NYDN front page over, once again, before archiving it in the bird cage, it is clear gut thinking gets you a bigger gut and perpetual indigestion. It benefits only the publisher and I can assure you, contributes to no rational discussion anywhere. The focus of the yellow style is simply to sell newsprint (aka the Murdoch manner) or gain eyeshare-- whatever it takes. Whatever it leaves behind.

[geoffrey1986]

I agree. It was a ridiculous headline but it made me laugh when I saw it this morning.

[bob___k]

A link to the item would have been nice. I guess I'll have to assume someone at the Post sourced it by having a close relationship with the proprietor.

[bmontopoli]

Vince: Yes, I know what an editorial is. I just don't think one can assert that someone is "going to hell" in a newspaper. And I find it funny the Daily News would assert as much in giant letters on its cover.

[vincenzof]

You do understand what an editorial is, don't you, Brian?

[peterbaldwin-2009]

When are we going to see Ken Lay's face there with the same headline?