Jackson's death - Absolutely 1A story?

You're preaching to the choir, lad. ... Just noting that once you take that intractable stance, there's no real arguing against it. It's bulletproof stupidity. It's not technically "local" and that becomes that.

 

Absolutely, without question a 1A story. Should be the CP most places.

 

I'm not an MJ fan by any means but if I subscribed to a paper that put this on the inside somewhere, I'd cancel my subscription because clearly they don't know what they're doing.

 

I'm going to your paper's website and mocking them in the morning.

 

Inky, there are a certain number of Pittsburgh Steelers and two Pittsburgh Penguins who would push this off of the center of A1 if they suddenly died, and this is only in the Pittsburgh metro area.

 

I'll send you the link.

 

On a secondary tangent - if I'm a politician who has or is having a fling, I disclose it right now in a press release.

 

Yep. Hell, OJ could admit he killed Nicole right now and no one would notice for three weeks.

 

At a small daily paper such as mine, the intersection of people who:

1) Subscribe to the paper
2) Care about Michael Jackson's death
3) Won't already know everything they want to know about it from other sources by the time our paper comes out.

is very small. Local does rule.

 

Your paper's job should be to cover the day's top stories. End of story.

I'm not saying you've got to make it the only thing you cover but to not find room for this is ridiculous.

I'm sure most of your readers weren't personally affected by 9/11, and got their info from other places but did you shuttle this inside in favor of a picture of Bonnie McBride's apple farm as well?

 

That's just not true everywhere. The days of a small paper, especially one with a larger regional paper in the area, trying to be the sole source of all news are dead and gone.

It'll get in somewhere. But again, nobody buys this podunk press for that sort of news.

Everybody was affected by 9/11. Our country went to war over. That's a massive analogy fail.

 

The day it happened, the only people who were personally affected were those who lost their lives or had family members who lost their lives or were in NY.