Where's our Sensationalism, Herald?

Like New York City, we've got our newspaper of record. In NYC it's the Times, here it's the Globe. But neither are really any fun. The action happens on the pages of the tabs. The Herald gives us our daily dose of puns in the headlines and 108 point font to let us know what's really important. But our friends at Gothamist have pointed out that the New York Post may have one-upped the Herald in their splashy coverage of the murder of Chiara Maria Levin this weekend.

The lead in from the New York Post story titled "Brilliant Beauty Cut Down"

A brilliant, polished Southern belle who moved to New York to work in public relations was gunned down in a seedy Boston neighborhood - caught in a gang shooting at a rowdy after-hours party.

puts the sensation in the story with key phrases like brilliant, polished, gunnded down, and seedy. While the Herald is a bit lack luster from the get-go, including their headline "Beauty slain in Hub feud" they continue to their lead paragraph

A highly accomplished 23-year-old Kentucky woman in town with friends for a birthday party was shot in the head early yesterday morning when she was caught in a hail of gang gunfire outside a Geneva Avenue after-hours house party in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods, police sources said.

The real story here is that Boston violence is on the rise, and with the killing of people who aren’t even from here the problem is going to quickly gain national attention and notoriety. The Herald provides a bit more detail on the story – expected from the local rag. The NYPost brings out the flashy headlines and sensation the story of a 23 year old caught in the cross-fire might expect to capture from the headlines of local papers. We expect the Boston Herald to bring us all the sensational news that's fit to print, and when they're being out done by our tabs to the south we feel the need to call them out on it. We expect the goods from the Herald – do what you do, but do it well.

Image from the front page of the Herald's Sunday edition