Headlines that should have made front page
I don't know if the giving over of the Thursday front page of the News & Record to a single feature story is a first in the modern history of the American daily newspaper, but if so, it's not a happy one. Let me mention some headlines from other pages in the first part of the paper that should have been on the front page:
(Leading, top right) "House narrowly approves CAFTA."
"Future flights on hold after foam falls again."
"Research says heart drug risky for some."
"India's heaviest rain ever floods Bombay."
"Scout leaders were pitching dining tent under power lines."
And then, along with a lead-in and jump to your "soldiers from the Triad serving in Iraq" feature:
"Kenyan offers goats, cows to marry Chelsea Clinton."
Jeremy Byman
Greensboro
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Why should these have made the front page since they were already old news. All the major news stations and cable news channels had alread spent hours on each of these subject.
The N&R is striving for LOCAL news coverage instead of a repeat of stale/old news. The stories mentioned are given coverage on inside sections pertaining to National and World news.
It is refreshing to see a newspaper of larger circulation going back to the local news first. In those newspapers who continue to carry the "leftover" news on the front page it us most often used to line the bottom of bird cages or to house break puppies and kittens.
Keep up with the stories of local interest on the front page N&R and let the others repeat the stale "leftover" news if they wish.
The stories and reports from Iraq from first hand beats the heck out of the "condensed version" we get in other papers if we get anything besides bad news at all.
Posted on August 2, 2005 1:47 PM