NEW YORK POST HEADLINE: COLUMBIA SURRENDERS

 The NEW YORK POST headline 'COLUMBIA SURRENDERS' headline is a good study of analysis for a college course in journalism, assuming the faculty were not in the business of propaganda and had every intention of teaching undergraduates and graduates alike some very significant lessons in the methodology of journalism v. propaganda for ideological, political or socioeconomic reasons of one group to the detriment of other (s).

The headline is also useful to teach students the difference between social responsibility and the quest to make an impression on the mass reader with hyperbolic slogans so that the twin goals of achieving both sociopolitical conformity no matter the level of social injustice and making money are achieved. Not just local and national politicians, but businesses love such headlines, given their own ideological orientation.

The question remains whether this headline constitutes journalism, assuming that journalism's ultimate goal includes:

1. presenting all sides of an issue, unless the issue involves moral absolutes like mass killing of children and genocide;
2. informing the community with the aim of promoting its welfare and that of humanity in general;
3. presenting facts with the goal of human edification, not instigating destruction of group for the benefit of the other;
4. advancing civilization rather than contributing to its demise through the promotion of division and hatred among disparate groups.