It is a curious fact that it is often the case that the headlines or article titles in the New London Day are skewed rightward, even when the content is not. I believe it’s the case that the articles are titled locally, even when they come from other sources. The latest, and one of the most egregious examples, appears this morning. The NRA, as all the world knows, proposed turning our schools into armed camps. We were not told, by the way, if armed guards should also be posted in every movie theatre and fast food joint in the land, but let that pass. The proposal was ludicrous and inane. Only a Fox News pundit could think otherwise. But the Day’s editor chose to give the proposal a cloak of respectability. The web headline is an unobjectionable, if understated “NRA calls for armed police officer in every school”, but the print edition wraps the crazy in a cloak of rationality: “NRA calls for boost in school security.”
This is a case in which even the Murdoch owned New York Post got it right. The Post is right wing, but it has to temper the insanity a bit, since it is selling itself to New Yorkers, not Alabamans. Under the circumstances, it’s headline does indeed qualify as fair and balanced:
The Daily News follows suit:
Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade.
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