Today's New York Post Cover Barely Mentions Gay Marriage

• I find the story about a suicide jumper being saved by the heroics of a police officer much more attention grabbing than gay marriage passing which the Post probably figured would be on the cover of every other paper.  Furthermore, I find it ironic that a publication that prides itself on being other than mainstream would criticize another publication for choosing not to go with an expected cover.

• Looking at it from a printing standpoint, they probably were going to run that cover before the news of the vote being last night. So the best effort was to include a sidebar as opposed to redo and reprint a whole batch run.

• Also, from an amateur semiotics perspective, putting it on a sub-bar below a negative news story like an attempted suicide, with the giant all-caps headline "DON'T DO IT!" could be perceived as a negative subliminal message toward gay marriage.  Damn it, Post! Just be happy your citizens are happy!

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