Color in newspapers

I understand that the current trend in color in newspapers is away from the pastels, but I feel that the use of intense primary colors is jarring.

In my mind, this is especially true of the Wall Street Journal, which is largely a black-and-white newspaper. The bold colors create too much of a contrast for me, especially when used on an info graphic on an otherwise gray page (example).

I don’t have the colors scanned exactly right, but you get the idea. Does anyone else feel this way? Is newspaper design becoming like fashion runways in Paris, where designers compete with radical designs just to get attention? What do you think?

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