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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