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:
Quote:
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.
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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: