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News coverage upside down

Saturday, September 15 at 2:00 PM

Stan Hrincevich of Littleton writes:

The priority, volume, and content of news in the Colorado newspapers is upside down. The stories on dogs/pets can equal or exceed the coverage of events in Iraq. The dog stories often get highlighted on the front page or in the case of Saturday’s paper, reported in the same section/priority as content about events in Iraq. A dozen soldiers can be killed in Iraq, scores of Iraqi’s killed, and/or soldiers seriously wounded and the story is reported away from the front page and maybe not even given ten lines of coverage. The opening of a dog part, a story about some dog returning home, or (and quite unfortunately) animal cruelty gets front page and multiple days coverage. The content of the stories also tells something about priorities of Colorado citizens.
They’ll spend $10,000 on an animal vet bill to save a dog, spend tens of thousands of dollars on dog parks, and have endless fund raisers for pets.
Conversely, these same people vote against bonds for schools, have no great concern about deficient funding for playgrounds and child development programs, and get less excited about substandard healthcare for children. If anyone is to wonder why it appears that more citizens of Colorado know more about and are concerned with dogs than the war in Iraq, they need only read the local papers.

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READER COMMENTS

Stan, If we don't concentrate on the dogs the terrorists win.

Posted by Keef on September 15, 2007 02:43 PM

What do you expect out of a regional tabloid...the news? That's why readersip, circulation, ad revenues and profits are all plunging and that why layoffs are surging.

Like most of the MSM, the RMN is rapidly becoming obsolete and irrelevant, being replaced by more reiable and faster sources of the news. If you wait to read it in the RMN or DP, its not news, its OLDS. And the OLDS also has a liberal political agenda. That nasty combination will put any media on the endangered species list.

Posted by Hank on September 16, 2007 11:39 AM

Educated people always catch on to lies,why pay for lies.Only idiots like og mike b. drew charles b.,sharon b.,mary and the rest of the village idiots are dumb enough to believe there liberal garbage.

Posted by Keith on September 16, 2007 07:22 PM

And I hold up Keith, for all to behold, as a paragon of high intellect

Posted by Grim Reefer on September 16, 2007 10:00 PM

And I hold up Keith, for all to behold, as a paragon of high intellect

Posted by Grim Reefer on September 16, 2007 10:00 PM

And I hold up Keith, for all to behold, as a paragon of high intellect

Posted by Gri Reefer on September 16, 2007 10:00 PM

And I hold up Keith, for all to behold, as a paragon of high intellect

Posted by Grim Reefer on September 16, 2007 10:01 PM

Hank and Keith make a nice couple. Both fat, stupid and impotent, ergo no arguments about whose turn on top.

Posted by on September 16, 2007 10:37 PM

Stan "The Man" Hrincevich.

Posted by draftdodgingisntafamilyvalue on September 16, 2007 11:06 PM