Best headline ever.
Tweets Erica Smith of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other various sites.
Here’s the headline, as it appeared in the print edition of the Evening Herald of Dublin, Ireland:
As folks have noted, the Evening Herald changed the headline on its online edition:
Read the story here. If you must.
A spin through the day’s front pages, as found at the Newseum.
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PUNNY HEADLINES
Stop the presses! Tabloid newspapers today published with puns in their headlines! Puns!
Seriously, I don’t want to laugh at this story. Not in the least. However, the headline used by the best wisecrackers in the buisiness — the New York Post, circulation 525,004 — makes it impossible not to smirk:
Long Island’s Newsday — circulation 334,809 — also went with a pun. An oldie but a goody, in fact:
The very best tabloid pun of the day, however, comes to us courtesy of the Tampa Bay Times, the free youth tab published by the St. Pete Times. In reference to a possible replacement for the giant ugly-ass baseball stadium — called Tropicana Field — the TBT writes:
That’s good stuff. And I’m so ashamed of laughing.
Well, not really. But I should be ashamed.
TBT has a daily distribution of about 370,000.
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A FUN PHOTOILLUSTRATION
Meanwhile, yet another New York City tabloid had some fun today at Lebron James‘ expense:
That’s A.M. New York, another free tab with an average daily distribution of 345,053 copies.
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GREAT MINDS AND ALL THAT…
Both of the broadsheet dailies in the District of Columbia played the same picture — by Lefteris Pitarakis of the Associated Press — in the same way today:
On the left is the Washington Times, circulation 93,763. On the right, of course, is the Washington Post, circulation 578,482.
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TALK ABOUT YOUR BAD JUXTAPOSITIONS
A home near Kalamazoo, Mich., suddenly exploded Monday — most likely due to a utility problem:
Now, there’s nothing at all wrong with the way the Kalamazoo Gazette — circulation 41,714 — played the story or the photo. Or the headline, for that matter.
Yet, you have to feel sorry for them. Because the two huge dailies in Michigan also used “blast” and “boom” in their headlines:
On the left is the Detroit Free Press, circulation 224,429. On the right is the Detroit News, circulation 134,983.
That’s gotta look weird in the convenience store:
Ouch.
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MONDAY’S SUMMER SOLSTICE
A few papers attempted to do something today with the fact that yesterday — Monday — was the summer solstice.
The most visually striking was the Columbus Dispatch – circulation 170,179 — that led A1 with a wonderful sunrise photo by staffer Chris Russell:
It was part of a gigantic project in which Dispatch staffers fanned out across the area to document the longest day of 2010. Find the story here.
Here is the accompanying video:
Finally, the most interesting summer solstice display I found today was this one in the tiny News-Miner of Fairbanks, Alaska, circulation 16,716.
The story is about a special baseball game played every summer in Anchorage. It’s played late in the evening of the Alaskan solstice, without any artificial lighting. Because, y’know, it’s not needed this time of year.
Find the story here by News-Miner staffer Renee Thony. You’ll also find a photo gallery there.
Read the game story here by News-Miner staffer Danny Martin.