Moral Outrage& NewsPosted by Tim on August 29, 2006 at 7:25 AM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution returned to fertile ground this past weekend, electing to mock children on Page 1. To be fair, they are choosing to belittle both jocks and nerds. No kid is safe from the comedy gold mine that is the AJC. If you can’t read the poorly reproduced headline, it says, “There’s no crying is baseball.” Nice. This kid’s crime was getting emotional in the Little League World Series, where his team from Columbus, GA had been kicking ass on their way to winning the LLWS. Like the word nerds, this poor kid gets an extra helping of grief at school, compliments of the friendly community paper. Front page news.
September 8th, 2006 at 10:26 am
[...] Mocking Children: The AJC responds to complaints to their “No Crying In Baseball” front page. The giant picture of a kid crying on the front page for a story that ran pages later was not meant as an attempt to humiliate. Besides, people wouldn’t have been so taken aback if it was a girl. [...]