Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Headline writer in deep shit

Up at the Post, there's the sad story of an 81-year-old Lower East Side woman who was critically injured during a fire in her Grand Street apartment. And here's the paper's treatment of the story online...



Hmm, I always appreciate direct headlines that tell me what the story is going to be about, but...

2 comments:

Lisa said...

There's a building in Brooklyn that bears the name "Graham Home for Old Ladies" carved over the entrance.

http://brooklynhistory.org/blog/2009/06/12/old-ladies-and-respectable-but-indigent-

That the word "old" should now be politically-incorrect is further evidence that our culture is entirely too youth-obsessed.

(Yes, only crazy people respond to long-dead threads!)

EV Grieve said...

Thanks for commenting on this one, Lisa!