What News Does the Front Page of the "International New York Times" Feature? Nothing About the Charlie Kirk Murder But a Story About a Provocateur Rapper

Are you familiar with the phrase "You do not hate the media enough"? In case you didn't think the sentence is evergreen, check out the front page of the international edition of the New York Times today.

Besides the fact that The NYT’s Obituary for Charlie Kirk Is an Absolute Disgrace (via Instapundit's Sarah Hoyt) and in contrast to the U.S. edition of the Times, none of the stories on the front page of the International New York Times Friday are remotely concerned with the Charlie Kirk assassination. (The news of the Wednesday death of the founder of Turning Point USA apparently arrived too late for Thursday's paper [printed in London], which is odd, since several European papers [published an hour ahead of the UK] — which are all shock-full of pieces on a young American they barely devoted a single line to before Wednesday — did manage to have articles on the tragedy in their Thursday editions.)

What is even more stunning is that none of the stories on the front page of today's paper are even on the "front page" of the NYTimes website. 

Indeed, none of them is directly associated to yesterday's (or the day before yesterday's) events. 

Only the briefest of mentions about "A young voice on the right" in the top left corner of the front page, above the newspaper's title, points to an article inside.  Although the INYT does manage to place said article not on page 17 or on page 33, but on page 2, this is simply the INYT's traditional location for obituaries — here are the four stories that the editors in London found more important than the TPUSA founder's assassination. (George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, and Jordan Neely never had it this bad.) 

Related: RIP Charlie Kirk — This Is What Is Bound to Happen When You Constantly Refer to Your Adversaries as "Fascists" and as "Threats to Democracy"  

• "I Feel like Stopping Everything": France's Equivalent of Charlie Kirk, Erik Tegnér, in Tears over the Death Threats He Has Received 

• The NYT’s Obituary for Charlie Kirk Is an Absolute Disgrace (via Instapundit's Sarah Hoyt)

Here are the four articles:

• Russia bets against the West, and it's winning — Sure, this is about the Kremlin's recent drones over the Polish border (Drone Barrage Over Poland Was a Test for NATO, and the U.S. in the American edition), but traditionally the Andrew E. Kramer piece could just as well have appeared somewhere inside the newspaper.

 • A logistical headache for Brazil — you would think that a front-page news story about Brazil at this time would concern the show trial and the conviction by a (kangaroo?) court of Jair Bolsonaro for challenging the results of an election — to an astounding 27 years behind bars; but no — it's about an event — COP30 — not due until… eight weeks from now! (In the U.S. edition, Somini Sengupta and Max Bearak's piece comes with a longer title [Brazil Invited the World to the Amazon. It’s Become a Big Headache] — here is a much more fun story about the lack of hotels for UN guests.)

• Doubting a two-state solution by Michelle Goldberg — The piece in the left-hand column of the INYT's front page (These Peace Negotiators Say It’s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution in the U.S. edition) is invariably a column from the Opinion section.

• The jewel (sic) of today's front page is entitled Ready to cut loose, singer struts back to her pop roots — which all of you will admit is a title enticing to the extreme (FYI, that was satire). In the U.S. edition, Joe Coscarelli's article You’ve Got It All Wrong About Doja Cat about the "singer, rapper and provocateur" doesn't appear until… Section AR Page 61! 

All this makes it something of a relief to discover Ross Douthat's friendly column inside, Charlie Kirk Embodied Mass-Culture Conservatism:

Charlie Kirk, murdered on Wednesday talking to college kids at Utah Valley University, built his career and reputation organizing a different kind of campus conservatism — fun-loving, masculine, rowdy, mainstream, even faintly cool. He seemed like a guy who would be popular on campus, who would be invited to the good parties, who would have friends outside of political activism, who wouldn’t just show up in a bow tie plotting how to take over the Young Republicans. 

 … But Kirk didn’t abandon the nerdy-controversialist side of campus conservatism; he tried to embrace it and live it out, as well, showing up on his college tours ready to debate and argue publicly with anyone, liberal or far left or further right.

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