I HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TOO


and even more later this week.

Just a quick question for all you news hounds and media junkies out there:

Which of the following seems woefully, painfully out of place on the front page, above the fold, of the Sunday edition of a major metropolitan newspaper that bills itself as One of America's Greats:

1) A new installment of "The Road to the White House," headlined Where did she go wrong? Clinton says her campaign's not over, but that hasn't stopped the post-mortems;

2) A full-color action shot from Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals, in which the newspaper's hometown hockey team had just played the night before, headlined, Stanley Cup Final GROUNDED BY THE WINGS; or

3) A story about how countless groups of women friends fancy themselves like the characters of a long-dead HBO series, share a love of glamour, glitz, and high-end fashion, and now eagerly await the release of a new summer movie geared to their most superficial instincts, headlined, For 'Sex and the City' fans, it's friends that count?

I'll wait while you...

...what? You have your answer already? It wasn't even close, you say, because both the question and the answer insulted your intelligence?

Then I imagine you're not an editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Posted: Sun - May 25, 2008 at 02:48 PM          

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