Great Moments In Newspaper Front Pages

Ed Driscoll | 9:21 PM on December 09, 2007

Let’s list some of the news stories floating around on Friday and Saturday:

There’s the NIE.

NBC’s refusal, for a time, to run conservative pro-troops ads.

Andrew Young’s potentially explosive comments yesterday about Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

And even the controversial Golden Compass underperforming at the box office on Friday.

Plus dozens of other stories that would make for hot, newspaper-selling headlines, in an industry that needs as much help as it can get.

So what was the headline today on the front cover of the dead tree edition of the San Jose Mercury?

Somewhere, William Randolph Hearst weeps. Somewhere closer to terra firma, Rupert Murdoch is probably chuckling about the competition–or lack thereof–he’s facing in the US.

(Cover scan via Newseum; story here, if you’ve taken your heart medication and can handle a level of excitement that makes the last two minutes of today’s Cowboys-Lions game feel like a test pattern.)

Blogging since 2002, affiliated with PJM since 2005, where he is currently a columnist, Dallas Editor, and founder of PJM's Lifestyle blog. Over the past 15 years, Ed has contributed articles to National Review Online, the Weekly Standard.com, Right Wing News, the New Individualist, Blogcritics, Modernism, Videomaker, Servo, Audio/Video Interiors, Electronic House, PC World, Computer Music, Vintage Guitar, and Guitar World. As an Amazon Associate, he earns from qualifying purchases. For media inquiries, please contact [email protected].

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