Sportswriter Mike Vaccaro gets it exactly right on the amazing front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer today:
Newspapers can still grab you by the throat, folks. Kudos to the Plain Dealer
Indeed. These are the kinds of things that make a newspaper matter.
Beautiful.
(h/t Seth Prince)
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Please tell me this is some kind of joke. Do you actually believe this was a good use of that space? I thought it was a sophomoric bit of USA Today-style pandering to the mob. When even CJR salutes that kind of stuff, we're in trouble.
#1 Posted by John Ettorre, CJR on Fri 9 Jul 2010 at 01:15 PM