Charlottesville Newspaper Co-Opts President Trump's 'Fire and Fury'
From North Korea to the University of Virginia's Rotunda
One reporter on staff with Charlottesville’s The Daily Progress joked that at least her paper today managed to spell “fury” correctly on the front page. A nod to Maine’s Kennebec Journal and an Aug. 9 double-R heard around the world.
Copy desk chief Mike Fox has proudly taken credit for today’s front-page work. It’s a politicized headline of the highest order, connecting statements made by President Trump earlier in the week in the direction of North Korea with a white nationalists’ march on a Virginia campus:
After the march, which began at UVa’s Nameless Field, reached the Rotunda, police later declared an unlawful assembly.
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