Groin-pull-porn battles tragedy; happy July!
Today's front pages, July 19, 2010.
9:26 am Jul. 19, 20102
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner?
The New York Post: "All-Star Yankee pitcher Andy Pettitte is in a world of hurt at the Stadium yesterday." Presumably the picture of Pettitte with a vacant expression on his face as he appears to be moving his junk around will be decontextualized enough in the future that this momentary lapse in tense can be forgiven: the Post is telling us that he is massaging his groin in this picture, taken yesterday. It's a caption! It's a teaser! It's a cap-teaser! The main hed makes it clear enough what's going on, and nobody bothers to read that false-start body-type on the wood anyway. "OUCH!" scream the big letters. He'll be out for five weeks. And, ladies and gentlemen, that is all for today's New York Post.
Daily News: The Daily News treats Pettitte's groin injury at the top of the page—more tastefully, and less … interestingly. "ANDY INJURED" reads the blood-red type in the snipe up top. "Pettitte headed to disabled list." But most of the Daily News wood is expended in an effort to describe a very hard-to-describe sequence of events. "TRAGEDY AT THE DAM" reads the main hed. (Can you name a dam in New York? Thought not.) "Desperate rescue bid fails to save 2 teens in scenic city park." What park is this? "David Luccioni, 17, and Crystal Reyes, 15, both of the Bronx, drowned when she was pulled under the deceptively calm water of the Bronx River at River Park and he tried to rescue her, fire officials and family said." Near a dam in the river, a pool creates an apparently safe place to cool off from the relentless heat; Reyes did not know how to swim, however. And though the area is fenced off and labeled "Danger, No Swimming," a least one teen among the 20 who gathered at the off-limits swimming hole called the trip "normal." In the seemingly placid water, Reyes and Luccioni, who dove in to try to save her after her feet slipped on some rocks, were under for somewhere between 15 and 25 minutes. So, expect the News to try to figure out just how normal trips of 20 or more teenagers to this dangerous spot of water are, and whether the Parks Department is doing enough to close off the area.
Observations: Look, I know lots of New Yorkers care about sports. But let me just run you through a few of the other stories that made news inside The New York Post this morning: Rachel Uchitel, notorious non-pimpette non-girlfriend of Tiger Woods, is joining the cast of a reality show; a triathlon held in the 90-degree weather made 12 people faint; an emergency technician vilified last year for not responding to the 911 call of a dying, pregnant teen was shot dead outside a Soho nightclub; Sarah Palin tweeted that the "Twin Towers site is too raw" for a mosque to be established nearby. "OUCH!" At least the Daily News found a story, with real people in it, and a beginning, middle and end, however sad. Sure, the Post got a great wiener-tug photo out of the Pettitte story. But, even in the silly season, we deserve a little better than that.
Winner: Daily News.
Not even that great of a photo for the Post. Didn't see the groin grab on first glance. Had to look again.
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