Sunday, October 5, 2014

Not that much news fit to print?




The October 5 @NYTimes has five stories on the front page:

How Ebola is changing the Liberian culture of touching and kissing; a wedding between a couple from a sheltered workshop; an upcoming @EdgarAllanPoe statue in Boston; an obituary for a Haitian dictator who went into exile in 19865, and an essay on how the Democratic Party is depending on PACs for the upcoming midterm elections.

Really? That’s all the News That’s Fit to Print today? Other than the obit for Baby Doc Duvalier, nothing of it is actually “new.” Ebola may be the story of 2014 before it’s all over, but how Liberians are learning they can’t touch every family member, friend, and stranger they come across actually isn’t. Is it investigative propaganda that has exposed that elections are funded by…funds? Boston’s reconciliation with Poe – a one-sided affair, for sure – seems more in the human interest than hard news vein.

Comparatively, today’s @WashingtonPost front page: How Ebola got so out of control in West Africa; the upcoming Supreme Court session as platform for Roberts’ tenth term as Chief Justice; an update on missing UVA student Hannah Graham; voter outreach in remote Alaskan villages; and Qatar’s policies of supporting everybody, from U.S. military to Al Qaeda rebels.

Was it just a slow news day?

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