Yes, I know pointing out shoddy NY Post articles is like complaining that water is wet. But even by their umm, "standards," this Bill Hoffman piece is a remarkable blend of heartlessness and cluelessness:
Red-hot rapper Proof - a close pal of Eminem - was executed in a Detroit nightclub early yesterday when a gunman blew his brains out during a heated argument...
...It was not immediately known what the argument was about or whether it was part of the ongoing East Coast-West Coast rap war that has claimed such hip-hop greats as the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur...
Okay I didn't go to journalism school.. perhaps there's a section I'm not aware of in the Columbia Style Guide, on the tasteful usage of "blew his brains out" in crime reportage? But I did graduate from 3rd grade, and one thing I learned there was how to find Detroit on a map. It wasn't on the East Coast. They also taught us what the word "ongoing" means, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean "ended about ten years ago."
