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more about #frontpages more comments → Mike Jahn: This is one of those occassional instances where things really WERE better in the sixties, when everyone was "balling" everyone else and no one expect... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: I love you guys, but shouldn't those two headlines be switched? more » AzureTexan: In a convenient dovetail of today's news, Elin Woods has volunteered her husband, Tiger, for infantry duty in the savage deserts of Afghanistan. more » Motoko Kusanagi: Wow LA Times is as clumsy and awful as Julia Allison in the Sony TV ad. more » Nasdaf: so many sleeping cadets. NY1 showed at least two female cadets asleep. PBS had a guy not even fighting it off. more » Sonar Jose: If his story is true, it just reinforces the old stereotype that Cablanasians are terrible drivers 25% of the time. more » Jeangenie: Oh no, no Malaysian Star cover--I'd love to read the Malaysian take on Adam Lambert. Or on the pie riots, the California Pension scandal or the Afgha... more » raincoaster: I just don't think those mini-front pages are tremendously enticing. I hate them in pic stories, I just don't see how they help in news roundups. "Gee... more » scroll_lock: They are being unnecessarily callous in their reporting. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Exactly right. Pundits and politicians have been pulling numbers out of the sky for a long time and the papers just print them more » momof3wildkids: Since you are so big into comparing costs here Ravi, what is the cost to insure, at a basic stripped down high deductible plan, about 35 million peopl... more » Spirit Fingers: Hrm, I think I like this Gawker version of "In the Papers." Needs a little Roger Clark though. Not that most things in this world don't. more » AzureTexan: The cigarette-n'-donut breakfast is delicious, I grant you, but have you tried the Swisher Sweet-n'-churro? more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: The NYT story about smart ways of letting people in financial trouble in Philly keep their homes is a public service, and is *way* more important to m... more » DoppleSeth: Re: WaPo's use of numerals. That rule doesn't apply to ages. From AP style manual "Always use figures for people and animals (but not for inanimates)... more » -
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A US Man is Named as Mumbai Terror Plotter
A Chicagoan is named as one of the people behind the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, and the late-breaking Tiger Woods story means the tabloids are behind. More » -
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It's Not Easy Being Green
World leaders are meeting in Copenhagen to try and curb global warming. The tabloids are doubtless checking to see if Tiger Woods has a mistress there — because he apparently has them everywhere else. More » -
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Inside Obama's Decision and Woods' Misery
The troops will probably be long gone from Afghanistan before the last Vegas lady cashes her Tiger Woods experience in with the tabloids. Who will run the story as long as there are pretty faces to put on covers. More » -
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Tiger Woods Admits Cheating, No-One Knows What Will Happen in Afghanistan
If you like Afghanistan, golf or money (and pretty much everyone likes one of those things) today is a good day on the front pages for you. If you are Tiger Woods however, it's best that you read a book. More » -
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Obama Pledges 30,000 More Troops for Afghanistan
The President gave some speech about troops in some country. But mainly the Post kills it on the Tiger Woods story. There are puns galore: birdies, sex drive, paws. To steal their line, they're all coming out of the Woodswork! More » -
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Broadsheets Don't Do Gossip. Unless It's About Tiger Woods.
Even some of the broadsheets can't resist the car-crash/affair/police avoiding story. His driving difficulties, and Iran's threat to carry on a nuclear program, are the big stories today. More » -
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Obama Pledges up to 30,000 More Troops for Afghanistan
The news that the President is to announce that his weeks of agonizing are over, and that there will be a troop increase, dominates the front pages. But there's still room for heartwarming Thanksgiving stories. More » -
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Charges Reveal How 20 Americans Came to Join Somali Terrorists
On today's front pages: unsealed documents show that a recent investigation is one of the largest since September 11, and that the insurgent group may be affiliated with Al Qaeda. More » -
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Catastrophe, Disaster, Calamity and a Kayak.
The world is falling apart! Water is full of feces, debt is collossal, sex offenders are running rife, six-packs abs are a sham and no-one updates Wikipedia any more. A look at today's front pages gives us two solutions though. More » -
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The Post and News Do a Good Foot Job
Having covered breast healthcare issues all week, the papers move south to other ladyparts today. But forget all that, buy the tabloids, and read about a foot model cast out into the street (almost) for her princess-and-pauper love. More » -
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Why Newspapers Love to Print Costs and Percentages
All the papers trumpet the cost of the Senate healthcare bill, released today. It's the dumbest thing they've done in a while (and the Post gave away Madoff's shirts the other day). More » -
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China! Breasts! Weed! Baboons! Michael Jackson!
The news that Obama can't push China around is the story of the day. The mammograms debate rumbles on, more from the weird world of Michael Jackson, carbon offsetting is a scam and Macbeth, the opera, featuring baboons! More » -
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Everyone Loves Breasts
Mammograms is a word that gets stuck in one's head very easily, and "uproar" about them is the only consistent story today. Dictator kids, drug wars and the chance to win Madoff's polo shirts await! More » -
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Play the 'How Will Andrea Peyser Appall Me Today?' Game
Today the Post columnist opines on the woman who was disfigured by a chimp. See if you can guess in which way she gets it subtly wrong and is slightly enraging to read. More » -
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Ring the Bell, School Is in, Sucker
The papers have toured around the world, from London to the Bay, abandoned their slavish devotion to Fort Hood and Afghanistan and come up with a day of fun stories that feature MC Hammer as a fashion icon among others. More » -
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The Return of the Recession Story
First a recession starts and there are a lot of personal recession features. Then everyone gets bored and there are no personal recession stories. Now, they're back! Along with some war, a sad President and more on Fort Hood. More » -
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Warning Signs of the Fort Hood Killer Were Missed, Still Not Clear
Select from the following: the army a) did know the Fort Hood shooter was radicalized, b) didn't know he was radicalized or c) kind of knew, through a third agency. Alternatively, ignore the whole intelligence mess and read about fishing. More » -
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Sex, Drugs, FBI Failures and a Grandmother in a Headlock
Oops. All the papers report that the FBI failed to act when the Fort Hood shooter emailed a radical cleric 10 or 20 times. Also: swine flu blood shortages! Living on severance! Drug wars! Madoff memorabilia! J-Lo sex tape! More » -
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The Day the Investigative Reporting Came In
When news of the Fort Hood shooting came in last week, papers covered the breaking story. Now they've had a chance to send reporters out, look what they found! More » -
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How Do You Cover a Shooting Story Everyone Else Is Covering?
You're a newspaper editor. There's been a massacre in Texas. But there are no front-page sized images of the shooter! What do you do? To the front pages! More »
