• Poynter, Monday, August 22, 2011 3:45 PM

Roy Peter Clark honors a recent New York Daily News front page that brilliantly illustrates Wall Street's recent volatility -- an example of how tabloid newspapers continue to play a vital role in journalism.

"The responsible tabloid (a near oxymoron?) does not ignore serious news, but chances are it will see that news in unconventional ways, either through the engine of bald outrage or low comedy," he writes, adding, "let's send up a cheer that there are still photographers and headline writers at tabloids who devote their lives to making news interesting, even laughable, especially on a day when we may have lost up to 10 percent of our life savings."

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