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Old 12-04-2012, 08:45 AM   #1
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Default A Man About to Die on the New York Post Cover Today

Today, the New York Post cover is a photo of a man a second before he was struck and killed by a subway train.

Here's the intro to the story for a bit of context:

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A Queens dad trying to protect fellow straphangers from a deranged man on a Times Square subway platform was hurled onto the tracks by the lunatic and fatally crushed by a train yesterday, cops and witnesses said.

Ki Suk Han, 58, desperately tried to scramble back to the platform as onlookers screamed, shouted and frantically waved their hands and bags in a bid to get the downtown Q train to stop at around 12:30 p.m.

The attacker, who had been menacing others in the station, looms over his victim after pushing him on the tracks.

Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi — who had been waiting on the platform of the 49th Street station — ran toward the train, repeatedly firing off his flash to warn the operator.
While the photo isn't graphic, do you think it's appropriate for the photo to be on the cover? No chance for the audience to look away. I think it's obvious they're going for shock value to sell papers (which is hard as hell to do these days).

I also question the photographer using his flash to warn the operator of the train. Pretty sure frantically waving your hands would be more effective from that angle.

Here's the cover:
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