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Cover Stories

I spent my entire day away from the blog contemplating the two front pages of yesterday’s newspapers. First, the Daily News.

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As you may remember, the Daily News recently caught flak from NBC 10 — okay, so not really — over its Photoshopped cover of Jocelyn Kirsch. How dare they then fool us into believing Hillary Clinton has been followed around by a giant Vaudeville-era stage manager ready to pull her away with a giant cane.

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The Inquirer, however, totally just used a sports headline. “Clinches nomination, breaks racial barrier.” I’ve been saying for a while political coverage needs to be more like sports coverage — uh, in certain ways — but the Inky appears to be headed that way. It’s essentially the same headline structure you’d see in “Phils top Mets: Clinch division, head to playoffs.” Et cetera.

  1. jlf Says: Jun 5 11:00 AM

    It looks like the Inquirer people agree with you. Today’s front page has a quote from Jimmy Rollins about Hillary. Not only is he our MVP, but he’s also the Inquirer’s new political correspondent.

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