With the omnipresent heavy editorializing of the current so-called “24 hour news cycle” with Cable News stations that appear to be less about objective reporting and more about over-simplified, eye-catching headlines it seems that the average newspaper reader is even less bothered by the circulation hungry, attention grabbing, sensationalist headlines (and content) of today’s tabloid newspapers.

Personally I am not shocked since I have no expectations. Instead it is with glee and much delight that I indulge in absorbing the liberties of so many of these so-called “news” outlets take these days with their editorializing. Best of all has to be the two main NYC tabloid dailies – the Daily News and the New York Post.

About a week or so ago one heading in the Daily News about a stabbing in Long Island had this glaring headline: “Knife-wiedling goons stab S.I. teen to death.” Goons? Talk about colorful language and talk about innocent until proven guilty! Ha ha ha. Of course the Murdoch (he of FOX News etc) owned New York Post is even worse, or better (in terms of guilty pleasures) when it comes to vivid language that veers far a field from objective reporting. 

One weekday about two months ago in the New York Post’s NYPD Daily Blotter five borough crime report, written by Jamie Schram and Matthew Nestel, under the Brooklyn section was this colorfully report of the scurrying, armed, pistol packing, i-Phone jacking, 11 muggings, creeping thug of a prowling punk. Wow! Have you ever read so much colorful language in so few words? Anyway here is the actual report as it was published:

Brooklyn–An armed thug prowling Bed-Stuy is responsible for 11 muggings in the last month, cops said yesterday.
The punk always strikes from behind, displaying a pistol before snatching loot and scurrying away.

The first attack took place at 7:40 p.m. on Dec. 9 on Macon Street near Nostrand Avenue. The robber crept up and threatened, “Give me your iPhone,” before snatching the device and fleeing on foot. Most recently, the punk mugged two people on Putnam Avenue and another on Hancock Street on Jan. 5, each time escaping with their wallets. The attacks took place 10 minutes apart just after 6 p.m.