Posts Tagged ‘headlines’

I love to read the newspaper, the old fashioned kind where you have to turn the pages.  I subscribed to both newspapers in Seattle to the very last day until the Seattle PI stopped publishing a physical paper and went on-line.

Imagine my surprise when I opened up this morning’s Seattle Times and saw the blaring headline “Grandma just shot them for no reason.”  I don’t quarrel with their editors’ news judgement.  Clearly that’s a big story. It’s the headline that knocked me back a bit. It’s copy I would expect to see on supermarket tabloid covers, not on my front doorstep, and not from a newspaper that touts under its masthead “Winner of a 2010 Pulitzer Prize.”

Come on Seattle Times people! I know you are under tremendous pressure to sell papers and the outlook for your survival publishing on paper may be bleak, but please don’t lower your standards.  That will just give the few of us remaining subscribers another reason to let you go.