In yesterday's online New York Times, above the fold, top of the page, under "Opinion," a tease reads:
Editorial: Obama and Corporate America
President Obama is right to reach out to business leaders, but his agenda must not be taken over entirely by corporate interests.
Here let us deploy that well-worn phrase, "Well, duh."
Otherwise, honestly, does that preview entice you in any way to read the whole silly thing? (I sure didn't bother.) The Times' sensationalist admonition suggests there's a chance that Obama's agenda could, in fact, "be taken over entirely by corporate interests," while the manifest preposterousness of it all simultaneously smothers the sensationalism. So what's the bloody point?
It's less inexpert yellow journalism than it is merely the empty fatuity of carnival barking: Step right up and be frightened, folks, by the freakishly, patently unbelievable.