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==={{Anchor|Headless body in topless bar}} Style=== {{Redirect|Headless body in topless bar|the film inspired by the story|Headless Body in Topless Bar{{!}}''Headless Body in Topless Bar''}} [[File:NYPost.jpg|thumb|The April 15, 1983, edition of the ''New York Post'' featured one of the newspaper's most famous headlines]] Murdoch imported the [[tabloid journalism]] style of many of his Australian and British newspapers, such as ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'', which remains one of the highest selling daily newspapers in the United Kingdom. This style was typified<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tabloid journalism|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/tabloid-journalism|access-date=September 19, 2020|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|archive-date=April 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408142631/https://www.britannica.com/topic/tabloid-journalism|url-status=live}}</ref> by the ''Post''{{'}}s famous headlines such as "Headless body in topless bar" (written by [[Vincent Musetto]]). In its 35th-anniversary edition, ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine listed this as one of the greatest headlines. It also has five other ''Post'' headlines in its "Greatest Tabloid Headlines" list.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/anniversary/35th/n_8568/|title=Greatest Tabloid Headlines|publisher=Nymag.com|date=March 31, 2003|access-date=February 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122082148/http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/anniversary/35th/n_8568/|archive-date=January 22, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''Post'' has also been criticized for incendiary front-page headlines, such as one referring to the co-chairmen of the [[Iraq Study Group]]β[[James Baker]] and [[Lee H. Hamilton|Lee Hamilton]]βas "[[Cheese-eating surrender monkeys|surrender monkeys]]",<ref>{{cite web |last1=Colby |first1=Edward B. |title=NY Post Officially No Longer a Newspaper |url=https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/ny_post_officially_no_longer_a.php |website=[[Columbia Journalism Review]] |language=en |date=December 8, 2006 |access-date=August 27, 2020 |archive-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027084737/https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/ny_post_officially_no_longer_a.php |url-status=live }}</ref> and another on the murder of landlord [[Murder of Menachem Stark|Menachem Stark]] reading "[[Slumlord]] found burned in dumpster. Who didn't want him dead?"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://forward.com/articles/190356/questions-and-outrage-surround-menachem-starks-bru/ |title=Questions and Outrage Surround Menachem Stark's Brutal Murder |publisher=Forward.com |date=January 5, 2014 |access-date=February 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226092300/http://forward.com/articles/190356/questions-and-outrage-surround-menachem-starks-bru |archive-date=February 26, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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