Oh, you know you’ll be repulsed by them. But you know you want to see how New York’s tabs covered the man who put the goober back into gubernatorial politics.
So here they are:
Well, gee. That’s not so bad. What did the Post do?
Ah! That’s more like it!
Among the um, mainstream tabs, Newsday did its usual fine job, keeping out of the way of the photo of the day:
Perhaps the best broadsheet design of the day was by the fine folks of The Buffalo News:
Once upon a time, if someone had told you there would be a giant sex scandal and Madonna’s photo would be one A1, you’d have assumed she was involved in the story, right?
It could have been worse. John Mellencamp could have been involved.
Most New York papers handled the story in a fairly standard way. Here’s the capital city of Albany for example:
One of the better headlines of the day, though, came from Niagara. This one cracked me up:
Perhaps the Post or the Daily News will soon be recruiting Niagara’s headline writer!
All pages are from The Newseum, of course. While you’re visiting the Newseum site, check out the pages announcing the long-awaited opening of the Newseum’s new brick-and-mortar building on the mall in Washington, D.C. Grand opening ceremonies are set for April 11.
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P.S: We space geeks are aware that Spitzer is also the name of an orbiting infrared telescope launched by NASA five years ago.
Please insert your own humorously off-color comment here.
Classes in video journalism
I have to add ours (Syracuse) to that line-up. I think we gave our readers every angle and did via a clean, bold, well-designed A-1. We looked forward, we provided the seedy details, we recapped Spitzers’ career and provided tons of information online.
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Best hed I’ve seen is from the Boston Herald: “Hooker, Lying, and Sinker.” Ouch!
Glad you liked the headline on the Niagara Gazette, but alas we cannot claim it to be our original work. It was used on the cover of one of the New York City tabloids and I’m sure that’s where we got it from. We used to have great headline writers in the Gannett days, but now because of time restraints we have to just funnel onto the page what the reporters give us and only rewrite it if it’s really, really bad.