re: #60 CuriousLurker

I’m kinda gob smacked. I just went over to Newseum to see the front pages of the three major papers (at least in my mind), and not a single one of them has the Charleston church massacre on the front page. Not. A. Single. One.

New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Washington Post

Other papers: The Chicago Tribune is all about the Stanley Cup (party time!), the Boston Globe mentions it on the front page (but it’s below the fold and has no photo)…

The Denver Post and Boston Herald got it right, but I by then I’d gotten disgusted and quit looking. WTF, America? Way to let people know you care. //

Oh, and how about Charleston’s local paper, the Post and Courier putting a sticker advertising deals at a gun shop on their front page along with news about the attack? Yeah, they apologized, but WTFF??

I’m assuming that the deadlines for the print version of the next day’s paper are well after 9pm ET, when the attack started. Even if they aren’t, why in the hell isn’t something like this a “stop the presses!” event?

I just… *SIGH*

They might not have had time to prepare a story before they went to press. Stuff has to get to the printer, printed, and delivered within in a certain time. And when the story broke, there wasn’t a lot of information available.