Post, Daily News Headline Their Own Irrelevance
Heading into work today in arguably one of the world's most media-savvy cities, here are headlines (4-inches tall, no less) from two major dailies about the West Virginia mine disaster:
Daily News: "Miracle in the Mine"
New York Post: "Alive!"
We've talked a long time about how print newspapers have lost a prime product advantage - timeliness - to the Internet; this is just a glaring example that, unfortunately, seems to clearly and loudly trumpet print newspapers' irrelevance.
Daily News: "Miracle in the Mine"
New York Post: "Alive!"
We've talked a long time about how print newspapers have lost a prime product advantage - timeliness - to the Internet; this is just a glaring example that, unfortunately, seems to clearly and loudly trumpet print newspapers' irrelevance.
2 Comments:
Two possibilities: Deadwood edition editors don't know about the Web, or they don't care. But I disagree with your position that the papers themselves are rendered irrelevant. The editors ought to be spanked harshly.
Newseum has all the "alive" heds: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
A&P posts all the mea culpas: As numerous front pages wrongly reported that 12 of the trapped miners in the incident had been found alive, editors scrambled to determine how their papers had fared in the coverage, which began around midnight as reports first surfaced that the miners had been saved. But about three hours later, the story dramatically changed when the truth was learned that the miners had been found dead.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001804432
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