Whore Us, Man

I'm currently in New York City, and there's a story here about sexual abuse in a hoity-toity New York school called Horace Mann. (I almost went there when I moved to NYC, coming from a Catholic school in another state that had sexual abuse issues of its own in the recent past stemming from incidents in the 1980s.) The New York Times did exhaustive investigative reporting on this story for their New York Times Magazine, only to have the story scooped up by one of the city's muckraking newspapers (either the New York Post or the New York Daily News: I forget which one, sorry {like it matters...}), told in a sensational manner (is there any other kind for such papers?), and with the headline: "Horace Horrors". But given the kind of sensationalist rag this paper is, I was shocked they didn't use the headline: "Whore Us, Man!"

These News of the World-style scandal-rag papers are notorious and sometimes fun for their ostentatious and snide headlines, so often marinating us in their superior sense of sarcastic schadenfreude, so it would have been a natural fit. But perhaps they exercised some cautious discretion for once, given the subject matter. But if so, it's probably a rare case of them doing so.

But what the comedy shows will make of this I'm sure will be a bit less, um, shall we say: "delicate"?

(BTW: The school in question claims all abuse was related to faculty members long-since gone, and that the entire issue no longer applies to the school. I hope that is the case.)