* "An instant classic." (Kevin Pang)
* "One of the greatest front pages in the history of newspapers." (Gene Weingarten)
* "This is how you do a front page." (Rob Pegoraro)
* "Best thing about the #LeBron train wreck? Today's Cleveland Plain Dealer front page." (Pamela Wood)
Can't read that little text pointing to LeBron's ring finger. It reads: 7 years in Cleveland, no rings.
Here are the BJ and Repository pages:
4 comments:
Actually, the small type says "7 years, $69 million, no rings."
Too bad they couldn't have given that much space to 9/11. But then, that was only news........
Don Roese
To set the record straight, The Plain Dealer devoted 16 pages to coverage of 9/11, including the entire front page. LeBron Gone was brilliant and to take anything away from the accomplishment is sour grapes.
I agree, Debbie. It was a brilliant concept, down to showing only part of LeBron on his way out the door, so to speak.
Newspapers devote all of a front page to a sports happening, as the BJ did, because people read it, and avidly. Those who do not particularly care for sports object to the coverage, to the amount of money superstar athletes make, or college coaches of perpetual big-time schools.
As with so many things, the people in either group are at the extremes, but most of us fall somewhere in between. We see that today in politics, where extremes on either end seem filled with rage at ANY idea the other side comes up with. What's best for the country often gets left out of the equation. Which helps explain why, 37 years after the 1973 oil embargo, America still has not dealt effectively with being held hostage to petroleum countries.
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