A headline that should shame everyone involved and which disgusts me...

Talk about opening yourself up to a libel suit... if the Gloved One ever caught wind of that hede.

Then again, it has more money than God. I doubt it really would care.

 

From the Morris Web site, this is the only executive that has his e-mail listed on there. Maybe it's time to send them some messages.

Morris Publishing Group
Craig Mitchell
Senior Vice President of Finance
Morris Communications Co. LLC
706-823-3236
craig.mitchell@morris.com

 

That's great--looks like Mr. Senior Beancounter is about to get bombarded in his inbox.

I can almost picture the WTF look when he (or more likely his admin) open his e-mail.

 

I didn't get the reference either - maybe if it was something like Thriller.

I think Roasted Nuts was worse because that was cruel and insensitive. This was insensitive and stupid. This was a sting and the headline made no sense in relating to the story, although that is the least of the problems.

How you could have editors who would allow this is beyond my comprehension.

 

Regardless of the insensitivity factor, if you are going to use a Michael Jackson reference, you can't stoop to a 20-year-old B-side single. I didn't know what the hell smooth criminal was, either.

 

Awful headline. No class response.
I doubt if the Post or the Daily News would use that headline in a situation involving a grown man stalking a 14-year-old girl.

 

I don't doubt it at all. But it is apples and oranges.

 

Man, how awesome is it, though, that a B-side single was such a kickass song?

 

References to dated music almost always miss the mark.
Even if it was "ABC," how many people younger than 30 would know the song well enough to relate it to a headline?

 

You're surprised?

I mean the paper is a Democrat!

 

I remember when this paper was the unofficial repository of double entendres.

One visiting team was playing a local team and the visitors had benched its 6-foot-5 quarterback (named Johnson) in the first half for an unspecified rules violation.

But when the coach "inserted the big Johnson" in the third quarter, things changed.

Good times, 1995 style.