Tabloid Double Vision, NY Times Climbers Edition

The Post and Daily News gleefully put the old Gray Lady on their covers with the same headline--"The New York Climbs"--in the Times' headline font. The NY Times tucks mention of the pair of unrelated climbers, Alain Robert and Ray Clark, who scaled its building to the bottom of the front page.

A year ago, the Post and Daily News didn't use the same headlines, but they did use the same cover and back cover images.

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By Jen Chung in News on June 6, 2008 8:05 AM

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Spirit of 76

Yeah, I realized that right after I posted, but there's no way to edit comments here and I was too lazy to post a correction.

But anyway, I still prefer the scene in Superman: The Movie where a burglar climbs up the outside of the Solow Building using suction lifters. Like nobody would notice somebody climbing up the side of a midtown skyscraper even at night. Hey, Alain, something wrong with the elevator?

tnturner

nameplate typeface.

Spirit of 76

The Post and Daily News gleefully put the old Gray Lady on their covers with the same headline--"The New York Climbs"--in the Times' headline font.

Wait, the Times prints its headlines in EnglishTowne? Don't you mean nameplate font?

meL

There's a difference between those two papers?

aveB4life

the news barely mentioned that climbed for global warming. big return on that one frenchie

ed_Extinct

I could have sworn i saw old al sharpton trying to scale the face as well...

MFer

Yeah. He is wearing the earing on the wrong ear.

PathToWisdom

Can someone talk to NY Times and NYC so that NY Times can start charging people $100 plus sales tax for the fun of doing this ?

And make it legal.

Make the climber sign a waiver, so that no one else is responsible for his/her injuries/death.

This is a great money making idea.

babyhitler

That french climber guy looks mad homo. No wonder he was able to climb at such ease. He probably floats like a fairy. You are a dude and you wear a earring? No offense to gay dude's, except the guys who wear earrings.