Today's NYTimes sports front

All right. Then the sports editor doesn't know the history of this topic, and specifically his own publication's history.

That's kind of weird.

 

The most interesting bit in the SND piece was that the NYT uses 8.7 on 9.6 for body type.

For comparison's sake, my papers run 9.5 on 11, it used to smaller but the old people complained and we made things bigger and looser back in the day.

Anyone else want to share?

 

We're 9.7 on 11.

 

The SND story called it a "gripping lede." It's an OK lede. It simply describes a scene. That's about it.

 

I hope the designer said to the SE, "Now why the fuck would you want to do that?"

But I doubt it.

 

We're 9.75 on 10. Wanted to do 9 on 10 when we changed fonts a few years back, but our executive editor (probably wisely) said we should go up a little (we were 9.5 on 10) so that when people inevitably complained that it was smaller (they did), we could tell them it was actually larger. Funny thing about people, esp. old people, when they can't tell what's different about type, they default to the size being smaller.

 

Why would the designer do that? The SE made his job really easy that night.

 

Just to be contrarian ....

If the NYT had done something like this on their front page circa 1975-1980 about smoking...

Like, no really, smoking is bad for you. Smoking could cause you to die a slow painful early death. Then we'd applaud the Times for calling attention to a major public health hazard, and who the fuck cares HOW they did it.

Make it about football, though, and it's -- those fuckers at the Times, what a buncha douches.

 

They've done it three or four times in the past couple years.

 

Ah, there's Lugnuts.

 

Nah.

I'm all for one-story fronts. I thought the LeBron transaction item was fine. Same with the blank front page for the HOF.

This wasn't the definitive story on football concussions. It was a feature about someone who had suffered ill effects from football concussions. There have been lots of these. I wrote one. Patrick Hruby wrote one a couple years ago on a kid who committed suicide after a concussion that was one of the best sports features I've read in the last few years.

There are a lot of ways to indicate that something is a really important story. This just looked like a mistake. I thought I was missing something.