If you enjoy Get Carter I'd recommend seeking out Mike Hodge's two immediately preceding television films that he made for Thames, Suspect (1969) and Rumour (1970). The latter ends with a spectacular montage sequence that entwines three time streams concurrently; the journalist's last movements leading up to his murder, what happens to his body when he is discovered, and the wider public controversy that follows on from this - conveyed through newspaper headlines.
It's just as well that the newspaper images are only seen fleetingly, because when you see them in isolation they don't look very convincing, even when judged by the simple criteria of typesetting, and "WHAT'S GOING ON?" would be a remarkably uninspired headline.
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