Mainstream prurience
I may have to take back my comment that there has been a sea change in the behavior of the mainstream media. Last night not a single broadcast network led off with the story of the Judge's ruling on the NSA spying program. For most, it was at best an afterthought. Jon Benet Ramsey after ten years is more important than news of a president who repeatedly violates the law and the Constitution.
posted by walldon | 9:01 AM
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On this one I have to give credit to the Chicago Tribune: the NSA ruling, in slightly larger type, took top billing over JonBenet case. Of course, there are all kinds of location tricks in the newspaper biz I don't know. Both were "above-the-fold" -- I've read that's big -- and while NSA was at the very top, Ramsey was in about the middle of the above-the-fold space. This probably allowed the Trib to have it's cake and eat it too: satisfy the Columbia Journalism Review with technical top billing for the more nationally important story, while still giving the "real" best spot to the one most people care about the most.
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