For far too long, The Times looked the other way on what it now calls a "can't-look-away" story.
The New York Times manages to demonstrate one of its problems in a recent headline and another problem in the story’s first paragraph.
Please allow us to demonstrate:
For Edwards, Drama Builds Toward a Denouement
The story of the spectacular rise and fall of John Edwards, with its sordid can’t-look-away dimensions, is moving slowly but deliberately to its conclusion here in North Carolina.
Problem number one: The Times looked away from what they now call a “can’t-look-away” story for more than a year while it was being covered extensively by the National Enquirer.
Problem number two: Any newspaper that would use a word like “denouement” in a headline is speaking over the heads of 95% of its readers. Even the rapidly-decreasing elitist readers of the Times.
Source: New York Times
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