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Would You Publish this Image? New York Times, Train Wreck: The New York Post’s Subway Cover Slate, What Disturbs Us Most About the N.Y. Post Subway Death Cover. Los Angeles Times, Outrage over N.Y. Post cover of man in train’s path. New York Magazine, New York Post Cover Shows Seconds Before Subway Death. Gawker, Photo of Man’s Imminent Demise Covers Front Page of the New York Post, Sparks Outrage. Let us know why or why not in the comments/reblog. Image: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 cover of the New York Post.

Would You Publish this Image?

New York Times, Train Wreck: The New York Post’s Subway Cover

Slate, What Disturbs Us Most About the N.Y. Post Subway Death Cover.

Los Angeles Times, Outrage over N.Y. Post cover of man in train’s path.

New York Magazine, New York Post Cover Shows Seconds Before Subway Death.

Gawker, Photo of Man’s Imminent Demise Covers Front Page of the New York Post, Sparks Outrage.

Let us know why or why not in the comments/reblog.

Image: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 cover of the New York Post.

Someone’s Enjoying This Story Yesterday’s New York Post.

Someone’s Enjoying This Story

Yesterday’s New York Post.

When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Get Weirder My local watering hole usually has newspapers on the bar counter. Makes for easy reading over a beer. A few weeks ago I came across this full-page ad in the New York Post. It’s for a “documentary” called “Dreams From My Real Father” and takes birtherism to even weirder, alternative heights. As Talking Points Memo explains, “Instead of focusing on claims about the president’s Hawaiian birth certificate, the film is narrated by an Obama impersonator and claims the president is a closeted communist, bent on instilling a ‘classic Stalinist-Marxist agenda upon America at home and abroad.’ A disclaimer for the film notes that many of the scenes are ‘re-creations of probable events, using reasoned logic, speculation, and approximated conversations.’” It does so by claiming that Obama’s real father was Frank Marshall Davis, a former journalist, and civil rights and labor activist. Evidently, he got Obama’s mom pregnant, which was scandalous, so the family invented a Kenyon father instead which was somehow less scandalous. If you’ve worked in print you know that the ad department looks for advertisers who reflect well on — and reinforce — the brand. Have a luxury magazine, your sales team is looking for luxury brands. Have a sports magazine, your sales team looks for advertisers that reiterate that lifestyle. If you’re the New York Post? Well, form follows function. And if you’re from Alabama, your GOP party chair is a nut job. As The Mobile Press Register recently reported, Bill Armistead was speaking to a Republican Women’s group and had this to say: “We have to win this election. This is about our country. Our country will not be the same,” Armistead said. “I’m convinced, if Obama wins, our children and grandchildren will not live under the same conditions that we’ve lived in these wonderful years. Obama has a different ideology than we do.” Armistead suggested that audience members see the movie ‘2016: Obama’s America,’ a documentary by conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza that is critical of the president. “If you haven’t seen it, you should,” he said. “But I’m going to tell you about another movie. The name of it is ‘Dreams From My Real Father.’ That is absolutely frightening. I’ve seen it. I verified that it is factual, all of it. People can determine.” People can determine, indeed. — Michael Image: Full page ad in the New York Post for Dreams from My Real Father.

When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Get Weirder

My local watering hole usually has newspapers on the bar counter. Makes for easy reading over a beer.

A few weeks ago I came across this full-page ad in the New York Post. It’s for a “documentary” called “Dreams From My Real Father” and takes birtherism to even weirder, alternative heights.

As Talking Points Memo explains, “Instead of focusing on claims about the president’s Hawaiian birth certificate, the film is narrated by an Obama impersonator and claims the president is a closeted communist, bent on instilling a ‘classic Stalinist-Marxist agenda upon America at home and abroad.’ A disclaimer for the film notes that many of the scenes are ‘re-creations of probable events, using reasoned logic, speculation, and approximated conversations.’”

It does so by claiming that Obama’s real father was Frank Marshall Davis, a former journalist, and civil rights and labor activist. Evidently, he got Obama’s mom pregnant, which was scandalous, so the family invented a Kenyon father instead which was somehow less scandalous.

If you’ve worked in print you know that the ad department looks for advertisers who reflect well on — and reinforce — the brand. Have a luxury magazine, your sales team is looking for luxury brands. Have a sports magazine, your sales team looks for advertisers that reiterate that lifestyle.

If you’re the New York Post? Well, form follows function.

And if you’re from Alabama, your GOP party chair is a nut job.

As The Mobile Press Register recently reported, Bill Armistead was speaking to a Republican Women’s group and had this to say:

“We have to win this election. This is about our country. Our country will not be the same,” Armistead said. “I’m convinced, if Obama wins, our children and grandchildren will not live under the same conditions that we’ve lived in these wonderful years. Obama has a different ideology than we do.”

Armistead suggested that audience members see the movie ‘2016: Obama’s America,’ a documentary by conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza that is critical of the president.

“If you haven’t seen it, you should,” he said. “But I’m going to tell you about another movie. The name of it is ‘Dreams From My Real Father.’ That is absolutely frightening. I’ve seen it. I verified that it is factual, all of it. People can determine.”

People can determine, indeed. — Michael

Image: Full page ad in the New York Post for Dreams from My Real Father.

No one’s happier that Tiger Woods won this weekend than the boys’ club at the New York Post.

No one’s happier that Tiger Woods won this weekend than the boys’ club at the New York Post.

The New York Post gets a little freaky with today’s front page, no?

The New York Post gets a little freaky with today’s front page, no?

The Cover: The New York Post. The Angle: Today’s New York Post lead article: About 700 protesters were arrested after a horde of anti-Wall Street demonstrators swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, halting traffic for more than three hours and clashing with cops on the famed span. Up to 100 cars were left stranded as the loud, angry crowd covered the crossing from end to end in an inflamed day of demonstrations against high unemployment, bank bailouts and financial pain for the masses. One irate driver, a Ground Zero construction worker, was livid. “I work my ass off all day, and these goddamned hippies close down the Brooklyn Bridge so I can’t get home?” he said. “This ain’t right!”

The Cover: The New York Post.

The Angle: Today’s New York Post lead article:

About 700 protesters were arrested after a horde of anti-Wall Street demonstrators swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, halting traffic for more than three hours and clashing with cops on the famed span.

Up to 100 cars were left stranded as the loud, angry crowd covered the crossing from end to end in an inflamed day of demonstrations against high unemployment, bank bailouts and financial pain for the masses.

One irate driver, a Ground Zero construction worker, was livid.

“I work my ass off all day, and these goddamned hippies close down the Brooklyn Bridge so I can’t get home?” he said. “This ain’t right!”