Commentary You may find it instructive, as I did, to look at the headlines, with their subheads, from two different and apparently unrelated stories in Thursday’s New York Times. Here’s the first, in its on-line version: “Behind the Nashville Bombing, a Conspiracy Theorist Stewing About the Government: Anthony Warner, who was obsessed with an outlandish tale about lizard aliens and other plots, had been planning for months.” And here’s the second, also as it appears on-line: “Four Subway Stabbings and a Young Man’s Downward Spiral: The rampage on the A train line reflected a convergence of crises—homelessness and mental illness—in a desolate subway system.” Notice any difference? Both involve what could be described as terrorist incidents in two widely separated cities and both consider the Times’s implied attribution of motive to the two perpetrators to be important enough for placement in larger type in the headlines themselves, rather than waiting …
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