The death of MJ is another dramatic example of what I call empty front pages.
Many were just clonic journalism.
The same everywhere.
With no ”added-value” opinion or information for boring and expected headlines.
What would I do?
Well, if I had writers like Andrew Sullivan at my paper, I would just print his opinionated and insightful comment in big type on the front page, plus his best words as the headline:
“HE DIED A WHILE AGO. HE REMAINED FOR SO LONG A WALKING HUMAN SHELL”
Or I would go for the one at the top of this post from Estado de Minas in Brazil, which at least shows a point of view (”Why he didn’t die”)
But first let’s see the “empty” ones, driven just by design considerations but with no post-news added value.
And then the pathetic clonic, no-brain, no-nothing ones:
