NYT Hall of Fame sports front

Would have been perfect for the new tax act.

 

Almost never.

And how much talk would this generate had it been any other paper but the NYT?

Almost none.

So it's not so much "what" they did but "who" did it. If anonymous daughter donates kidney to save mom, it gets no press. If Lindsay Lohan donates kidney to save mom it's the talk of the nation. Same action, different reaction. And 98% of the reason the NYT action is getting reaction is that it LOOKS like a glaring mistake.

BTW, that same designer did a baseball steroids design a few years ago where he shaped 89 mug shots into a hypodermic needle. That was imaginative but received no talk . . . because it didn't look like a glaring mistake.

 

But I keep coming back to the fact that this particular story did not support that chance.

 

The New York Times should be better than this.

This might be the most overblown sports story in a while.

A council of elders did not gather in a room and deem that no one was worthy. The vast majority of voters cast ballots with multiple names on them. No one individual crossed the 75 percent threshold. BFD.

 

Was in The State that did a front similar to this on the one day where there's no sports? What is it....like the day after the MLB All Star Game or something?

I don't particularly like the NYT version, and YG makes a great point.

 

Should the CBC have shown a test pattern during the HNIC timeslot in the midst of the lockout?

 

Joe Falls, 1966.

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This is what the Detroit Tigers accomplished last night at Memorial Stadium.

 

I dunno if this changes anyone's minds, but during the week, the NYT sports section is in the middle of the business section; it really doesn't get its own Page 1, so it usually has a ginormous image on its fronts, probably to try to keep folks from shooting on through sports to the next part of the section

 

Definitely made for a short day for the desk.

 

Much better.