Star headline worse than heads used by Moon, Murdoch, Fox

by David Safier

Just how bad is the Star's Creative Headline Writer's abomination in today's paper? Worse than any headline I found on the same AP story from Moon, Murdoch or Fox.

Earlier this morning I wrote about the headline the Star created for today's AP story:

Why seniors say Obamacare is bad medicine for them

The Star is alone in using the GOP/Tea Party phrases, "Obamacare" and "bad medicine" in its head. The most used headline is

Seniors fear health care remake will hurt Medicare

After I posted, I thought, "Surely the Moonie paper, the Washington Times, and the Murdoch paper, the New York Post, used heads as bad as or worse than the Star's. Certainly Fox found a way to top Tucson's daily."

I thought wrong.

Seniors fear health care remake will hurt Medicare (Washington Times)

Seniors wary of health overhaul impact on Medicare (New York Post)

Seniors fear health care remake will hurt Medicare (foxnews.com)

The Star headline looks like something from GOP talking points and the loony right. The Washington Times, the New York Post and Fox News are voices of reason by comparison.

Something is terribly wrong with the publisher and the editorial staff at the Star.

NOTE: By "editorial staff," I mean the editors responsible for determining the content of the news section of the Star, not the people responsible for the editorials or the op ed section. Thankfully, the op ed pages don't reflect the right wing bias I find in the choices made in the rest of the paper.