A short post…
The absolute, dumbest local TV station in NYC…WPIX, Channel 11…covered a true story today with the following headline:
Man dead after jumping out of Manhattan freezer with knife was a suspected cold-case killer
Think about it for a minute…
Now…the story.
A man who jumped out of a freezer and threatened employees with a knife at a New York City brunch spot and then died was a suspected cold-case killer who had just been released from jail in Boston, authorities revealed on Monday.
Carlton Henderson, 54, of Arizona was suspected in the 1988 shooting deaths of William Medina, 26, and Antonio Dos Reis, 22 (Courtesy of Fox2 St. Louis).
Carlton Henderson screamed “Away from me, Satan!” as he rushed out of the walk-in freezer at Sarabeth’s on Manhattan’s Upper West Side Sunday morning, police said. Kitchen employees stripped away the knife and took him to the floor, police said, and he went into cardiac arrest.
Henderson was facing murder charges in the 1988 shooting deaths of 26-year-old William Medina and 22-year-old Antonio Dos Reis.
Henderson, 54, of Cave Creek, Arizona, got out of jail last Wednesday when a judge threw out key evidence in the pending double-murder case and ordered him released on his own recognizance.
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But the headline!!!
I am a connoisseur of clever, sensationalistic, attention-grabbing headlines…I used to write some myself for Rat Newspaper in the mid-’60s. The greatest one I have ever seen was in the frontpage heyday of the NY Post
Headless Body Found In Topless Bar
But this one comes close.
The only thing is…given the utter stupidity of most of what passes for “news” and “entertainment” on WPIX, I’m wondering whether this was a result of planning or just an accident.
Either way, it should go into the Headline Hall of Fame.
Just sayin’…our media, loud and clear.
Over and out.
AG
