Pew: Weiner filled 17% of "Newshole" Last Week, Santorum Falls Behind http://bit.ly/jSMfQq
Many BSU freshmen unclear why they are in college
Headlines that warm your alumnus heart
Sidebar: Wondering about the legalities of a mandatory survey triggering letters home. Maybe we’re off base on that?
Rep. Anthony Weiner’s now-infamous self-portraits accounted for 17 percent of the newshole measured by the News Coverage Index last week.
Not making this up – it’s really called newshole.
PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index examines the news agenda of 52 different outlets from five sectors of the media: print, online, network TV, cable and radio. [...]
Minor oversight.
Whoops! Just an oversight. I’m sure there’s nothing else questionable! Just to be sure, let’s check the story’s lead:
The closet door became unhinged lately when a number of gay men in sports decided to turn the knob and hold a public liberation.
Maybe it’s time to retire literary uses of the closet metaphor.
Astute readers will notice the slang buried in the nutgraf.
Reuters | Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters
Take a look at the front page of WANE.com this afternoon; a story about a deceased town mascot leads. The caption’s where I really lost it.
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Big news night for CNN.com: Is it time for the Simpsons to go?
Just for comparison, here’s the International version at the same time:
This is rivaled tonight by the most popular stories module (U.S. edition) on an article on the Buffalo Continental crash, seen below:
In case you’re wondering, CNNi”s edition, below:
Way to go, America. (Sorry, Chris [...]