Today's LA Times cover: inspired juxtaposition?

Richard Metzger sent this around today, saying: "Is this what the bailout really looks like???"

[#1 posted by zuzu , October 14, 2008 6:01 PM]

I thought the cloud would be more mushroom-shaped.

[#2 posted by mherdeg , October 14, 2008 6:02 PM]

"LA Times," please, not "LA Time's."

I think "LA" is OK though (rather than "L.A.").

[#3 posted by Johnny Cat , October 14, 2008 6:23 PM]

The Mist comes to mind. Or id4.

[#4 posted by ispinyarns , October 14, 2008 6:29 PM]

@Johnny Cat: OMG, it DOES look like ID4! I love that movie.
Although I think we're doing a fine job of stripping our planet of resources without the help of aliens. :(

[#5 posted by brownb0x , October 14, 2008 6:47 PM]

i saw this with my wife this afternoon and drew the same conclusion initially. horrible (or intentional?) heading/body formatting.

[#6 posted by dbarak , October 14, 2008 7:13 PM]

There's a problem with the picture. I see lots of smoke but no mirrors.

[#7 posted by wolfiesma , October 14, 2008 7:24 PM]

That's a pretty epic front page. But its not like the LATimes is making this stuff up. It is actually going down like this. Economic and environmental catastrophe.

Did anyone notice the charity that Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr. were doing for Hurricane Ike relief in Galveston? I want to help, but I just can't put my name on anything Bush...

Anyway, fire, flood.... global warming hits home.

[#8 posted by Doran , October 14, 2008 9:16 PM]

I think it's just symbolic of the LA Times itself.

[#9 posted by Roach , October 14, 2008 9:33 PM]

I think I see orcs.

[#10 posted by Dr.Arthur , October 14, 2008 11:32 PM]

I saw that this morning at the store. I chuckled a little. Glad to see it was not only me that thought it was funny.

[#11 posted by Kieran O'Neill , October 15, 2008 1:09 AM]

Looks to me like a deliberate evocation of the dustbowl - which was remarkably coincident with the Great Depression.

[#12 posted by Alex Mingoia , October 15, 2008 9:00 AM]

How sensationalist. Just how I keep seeing newspapers with pictures of the great depression. Sorry, but nobody is standing in line to get food. Grocery stores are full of food, and the prices haven't been changing much. This is in no way parallel to the great depression.

[#13 posted by Robert , October 15, 2008 9:36 AM]

Here's another picture of the bailout:

http://nobailout.ytmnd.com/

[#14 posted by Antinous , October 15, 2008 10:17 AM]

Grocery stores are full of food, and the prices haven't been changing much.

How's the weather on Mars, anyway? Stores in some areas are rationing staples such as rice, and food prices have nearly doubled in the last two years.