Gelf previously has taken issue with Metro, one of New York's free daily newspapers aimed at commuters. But it was Metro's generally superior rival, amNewYork, that ran a front-page headline Tuesday on par with the New York Post's Kerry/Gephardt ticket (Smoking Gun). Quoth amNewYork: "The prez vows fed abortion ban will be overturned—many New Yorkers disagree."

Say what? Since when did Bush oppose a federal ban on abortion? Stunned readers who dutifully flip to page 9 will find a story headlined, "Bush vows to overturn Roe v. Wade." (Here's the AP's version.) So clearly the landmark Supreme Court decision on abortion rights instituted a federal ban. In New York newspapers, you get what you pay for—or, in the spirit of amNewYork's double negative, you don't get what you don't pay for.