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Subject: Was this inappropriate of this newspaper?
Poll: Was this inappropriate of this newspaper?  [closed]
Yes:  75%
(6 Votes)
No:  25%
(2 Votes)
Total Votes: 8

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The cover of Tuesday's New York Post - which shows a man moments before he was fatally struck by a subway train - is sparking outrage from readers.

Han, a 58 year old father from Queens, was pushed into the subway tracks by "a deranged man" on Monday afternoon. One witness said that he was caught between the platform and the train, and dragged. The front page of the Post showed Han trying to lift himself back onto the platform at the 49th Street station as a Q train approached.

On Tuesday, readers asked why the photographer didn't try to help Han instead. The picture was taken by R. Umar Abbasi, whom the Post described as a "freelance photographer." The paper and Abbasi said that he was running toward the train and "repeatedly firing off his flash to warn the operator."


I don't want to judge the actions of the photographer. That is pointless, and silly. Rather, I want to ask whether the paper was in the wrong by running that photo on the first page, especially with that headline.

I think that it is extremely tasteless sensationalism. I think that putting the photo in the story would have been a much better option. I think that putting the photo on the front page is capitalizing on the man who died's death.

Do you agree with me that the New York Times is guilty of sensationalizing a murder in progress? Or should it be acceptable to run the most gripping photo on the front page, even if some think it is exploitative?

  • 12.04.2012 4:17 PM PDT

Gamertag - Rdog 11

Call me Rdog, not RdOG or RdOG1507. I made that username when I thought it was cool to use alternating capital and lowercase letters...

Yeah - it seems pretty insensitive

But the New York Times is known for its often controversial covers

[Edited on 12.04.2012 4:19 PM PST]

  • 12.04.2012 4:18 PM PDT

Just remember that no matter how terrible you feel, or how much you want to let go, there are people who care about you and love you.


Posted by: RdOG1507
Yeah - it seems pretty insensitive

  • 12.04.2012 4:18 PM PDT
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inappropriate. looks like a comic cover.

  • 12.04.2012 4:19 PM PDT

dafuq would they show that?

  • 12.04.2012 4:20 PM PDT

Loltwitter

  • 12.04.2012 4:21 PM PDT
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Trolls are insecure about their own pathetic lives that they act cool behind a keyboard.
Go back to being a failure kid.

A news helicopter here in Australia filmed a woman crying over her daughter's body on their farm. Body was under a white sheet.
Apparently their relatives found out that she had passed due to the news stories.

  • 12.04.2012 4:22 PM PDT