Dispatches from the Culture War: Monday's Boston Herald Headline
Dispatches from the Culture War: Monday's Boston Herald Headline
March 21, 2008
A friend sent this pic to GP from Boston.It is Monday's edition of the Boston Herald, which covered the Massachusetts video game legislation hearing.
The article inside is actually pretty well-balanced, although the tabloid cover is clearly over the top...
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There are three newspaper for Boston: The Boston Herald, The Boston Globe, and The Metro.
The Metro: A free newspaper, that generally covers local news and entertainment....not very good for a news source.....like relying on Fox News to report the REAL truth. Its published once a week (I think).
The Boston Herald: A fairly conservative puplication that is more sensaitional news reporting then journalism. My observations are, those that read the BH are generally without a college education, blue collar workers. It reads like a magizine instead of a newspaper format. Its published every day.
The Boston Globe: Pretty liberal in its journalism. However, do not be confused with it being liberal....in the Northeast, Liberal tends to means 'educated', 'wealth', 'knowledgable'. The paper is published every day. The story you find in the Boston Herald would not appear in the Boston Globe without a decent amount of thought and whether its good journalism. The people that read it, generally are educated (Bachlors or greater), white collar, and either in bio-tech, finance, or technology.
Frankly, its nothing new that BH published what smut it did on Monday....its no better at news reporting then Fox News.
AND....
GO!
You should have known by now not to annoy a Manning. You got what you deserved. You're lucky no pitchers are named Manning.
Oh, yeah, and that's pretty stupid journalism. Sadly, most TV/print journalism fits this bracket, nowadays.
Its great to see how journalism has evolved into thought provoking mass genre aint it?
Why are they so violent?
With the actual article not being that biased, you'd think the headline would reflect that. Looks like the editors got bit by the Fox News bug.
Also, what game were the kids in the photo playing? Its not one I'm familiar with.
I wonder if I'd be arrested for abducting a hundred children & surgically implanting wireless webcams into them. That way we could scientifically monitor the average day of those children & see how much violence they are exposed to & determine what percentages come from parental passive aggression, violent movies & TV, 'violent' play, computer games & the like.
All in the name of science that is...
Looks like the editors got bit by the Fox News bug.
I rather interpreted the exaggerated headline as a bit of an ironic "look how loud this idiot is screaming and saying practically nothing" statement but if Nitherean's description of the paper is accurate, I should be more surprised by the balance in the article.
Aw c'mon. This is in the same vein as attention grabbing headlines such as "Man Bites Dog"
In fact, Superhero comics in the old days pulled that stunt too. Like "SUPERMAN KILLS BATMAN" while the actual story was about defeating a criminal posing as Batman orsomething like that.
sounds kinda hypocritical when you think about it.
But the article was surprisingly balanced to have such a head line.
Dude, games are just for KIDS. Everyone who listens to jack thompson knows that, therefore no adult could seriously object.
@E. Zachary Knight
Maybe I'm too cynical but it strikes me that they doubled the advertising revenue for that story by enticing people to click for page 2, expecting to read another page of content but instead were effectively reading "And they all lived happily ever after. The End"
On topic: Intentionally ironic eye-grabbing headlines? What else is new?
This! Is! BOSTOOOON!!!!
(Sorry, I just had to.)
Seriously though, is the Boston Herald a tabloid?
'Cause it's kinda looking like one now.
Oh sorry, I thought you were after something EVERYONE would be offended by.
lol, I just noticed I meant to put "everyone won't be offended by."
PiB Says:
"We’re still pissed off about the Superbowl, as you can see."
Hehehe.
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