Found the following story on page A19 (the inside of the last page) of the StarTribune newspaper this morning: "Canada arrests 17, Foils terror attack. The Associated Press story reports that Canadian police successfully captured a group of suspects who had amassed 3 tons of ammonium nitrate and other bomb-making materials, three times the amount used to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Police also found a cell phone wired to a detonator, camoflague uniforms, and other suspicious material. Don't know about you, but that seems like kind of big news to me. So why was it buried on the last page of the section? Is it a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that the story is about Canada? Apparently, the Strib editors don't think it is as important to us as a new law requiring carbon monoxide detectors in homes, parents worrried about whether a new vaccine against a rampant STD will somehow send their infants a message that premarital sex is okay, sewage problems, or whether the anti-Christ will be revealed on 6 June 2006, all of which appeared on today's front page. Okay, I admit that the latter could potentially be big news, but personally, I've never considered the Book of Revelation to be a reliable source of hard news.
Posted by ldfs at June 4, 2006 3:24 PM | TrackBack