New York Post readers were greeted this morning with a shocking sight. Slapped across the cover was a photo of a man seconds away from being killed by an oncoming subway train:
Today’s @nypost cover of the man on the subway tracks is probably the craziest I’ve ever seen. twitter.com/samir/status/2…
— Samir Mezrahi (@samir) December 4, 2012
The Post is now facing a very nasty backlash — and they’ve earned it:
Just saw the @nypost‘s cover today of a man moments before his death from a subway pusher. SICK & immoral to print it imho.
— Braf Zachland (@adammc123) December 4, 2012
Now i can’t un-see that…. The New York Post cover today is too much for my heart.
— Miss Ange (@MissAngeOnAir) December 4, 2012
Cover of today’s @nypost photo of man about to be killed by subway is reprehensible. Way that paper floats in public space, unavoidable.
— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) December 4, 2012
. @nypost lacking common sense with today’s cover. Terrible.
— Craig Hooghiem (@craighooghiem) December 4, 2012
#Outraged at cover of The New York Post (DISGUSTING) Man gets hit by a train and they print a pix of the train coming toward the man! Smfh
— MSKNICKS (@MSKNICKS) December 4, 2012
Poor taste, even for the Post. RT @nymag Chilling @nypost cover shows seconds before the subway death. nym.ag/THcmYV #morbid
— Social✽Fly (@ABHuret) December 4, 2012
I love gossip as much as the next but @nypost went TOO FAR w/ their cover today.Disgusting.(thanks @erinmacal 4 heads up)
— Marna Palmer (@MarnaP) December 4, 2012
I hope the editors behind today’s NYPost cover have their last moments of life horrible exploited.
— Aubry Parks-Fried (@mrsapf) December 4, 2012
The @nypost cover is a crime. Photographer claims he fired off his flash to warn the conductor. While running at the train. While managing
— Dan Krokos (@DanKrokos) December 4, 2012
DEAR @nypost, this is an exmaple of horrific journalism and you should be ashamed. The editor should be fired. bit.ly/Yw1QLc
— Zoë Gulliksen (@bookishbelle) December 4, 2012
Smh at today’s @nypost cover! uncompassionate schmucks
— Karεn Ciѵil (@KarenCivil) December 4, 2012
The #NYPost cover today is just ridiculous. They have no shame
— V.XIII.LXXXVIII (@nycbreed718) December 4, 2012
That New York Post cover is horribly disrespectful.
— bread xtravaganza (@MavisGary) December 4, 2012
I always knew @nypost was a disgusting rag but today’s front cover is so outrageously gross words can’t possibly describe it. Shame on them.
— Scott Roth (@scottroth76) December 4, 2012
Disgusted and horrified @nypost for splashing a man who’s about to die on their cover. Tasteless and unethical journalism
— Lindsey Cohen (@LindzelBean) December 4, 2012
@nypost officially put themselves in the zero class category with today’s cover ….might be the most tasteless thing I have ever scene
— Isaiah Orlen (@ISOglobal) December 4, 2012
And what about the man who lost his life?
@nypost Tosay’s cover crosses all lines of decency.His family is going to see the photo of him about to be killed.
— Sharon Kuper (@SharonKuper) December 4, 2012
Imagine if the man in that @nypost front page photo about to be killed by a train was your friend & you saw that on a newsstand.
— CatsPolitics (@CatsPolitics) December 4, 2012
We can’t. Just horrible.
But perhaps the Post’s colossal lapse in taste highlights something even more disturbing than the cover itself:
Everyone on that platform watched that man die & did nothing but run or take pics. Shameful. And the #NYPost is disgusting for that cover!
— Tzena Nicole (@TzenaNicole) December 4, 2012
Why did no one save the man in NY? Why did people just watch him instead of helping him?
— Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) December 4, 2012
