A Tale of Two Front Pages

[StarfishSaver]

Link to tweet

[empedocles]

1. Important

[Laelth]

2. I would like some analysis, here.

What’s the important “difference” that I am supposed to see?



-Laelth

[thucythucy]

3. Well, for one thing there's a full color photo

of Hillary looking concerned or rocked or whatever, but no unflattering photo of Trump/

Also, unless my eyes fail, in addition to the story about the e-mails there's another story, also above the fold, about Comey being back in the fray.

So--bogus e-mail story about candidate Clinton--two above the fold features plus a large photo to dominate the page--egads!

Documented (by audio recordings) revelation about a sitting president's duplicity that has cost thus far two hundred thousand American lives and sickened (perhaps chronically) hundreds of thousands more--one story, no photo--ho hum.

[Laelth]

4. OK. I see that. Thanks. n/t

-Laelth

[StarfishSaver]

5. The Hillary "there might be more emails" story took up the entire above-the-fold

While the president of the United States admitting on tape that he lied to the public about something that killed tens of Americans was given one column - and not even the lead one.

[hvn_nbr_2]

6. Compare "emails jolt Clinton" vs. "admits he minimized"

One headline intentionally evokes an emotional response while the other deliberately tries to avoid evoking an emotional response. One hypes up and one downplays.

Admittedly, this instance of CorpoPravda hypocrisy is not as egregious as some, but still...

[lostnfound]

7. Why did they assign Maggie Haberman to this?? To minimize.

The story isn’t that he “acknowledged to Bob Woodward“ “earlier this year”.

I’m not a writer but the story is bigger than an acknowledgement to Woodward.

The president has told the public that the virus was a hoax and not dangerous to children, but taped conversations in early February show that he understood the opposite was true.