Many newspapers are going through hard times, but the sports page of The Morning Journal’s Monday print edition shows exactly why we should keep picking up the paper.
An Ohio newspaper snuck this ‘Warriors blew a 3-1’ joke onto its sports page
Knock knock. Who’s there? 20th-century media entering the 21st.
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Look riiiiight below a monstrous, alliterative “Clutch Kyrie caps Cavs Christmas” headline for a story about the Cleveland Cavaliers’ win over the Golden State Warriors on Christmas Day.
Some copy editor or page designer snuck in a piece of the internet in the subtitle: “Warriors blow 3-1 (sorry, muscle memory) 14-point lead in fourth quarter.”
For those of you who have been hiding under a rock for the past, like, six months, the 3-1 lead that the Morning Journal is referring to is the one where the Warriors were up by that margin of games during the NBA finals in June.
(Yes, I actually subscribed to the digital Morning Journal for 99 cents, so I could verify this was a real thing and get that screen grab. You can subscribe to them here, too.)
After the internet (aka @lindseyllewllew) found this gem, The Morning Journal broke its Twitter feed of news stories to also tweet a confirmation:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/Q9CjAEhS7z
— The Morning Journal (@MorningJournal) December 26, 2016
The little shrugging man!
Who says print is obsolete now?
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