Comments on All's Wool that Ends Wool: All the News that's Fit to Ignore

Eugene, while I respect your answer, it seems to m...

2008-09-25T08:59:02.336-07:00

Eugene, while I respect your answer, it seems to miss an important point. There are events going on each day that reflect the urgency of the larger crisis. Bush's speech, for instance, or McCain's suspension of his campaign, the FBI's investigation of the investment banks, etc. The list goes on and on. If this was the early 1940s, would we skip the daily coverage of key events in WW2 because they are part of a general theme, WW2, which is covered elsewhere. In the news should be about the most important news, and not just the tiny events that can be summarized in two lines. For people looking there for the headlines, with the economic crisis going on around them, the PM of Vanuatu or some gold tournament just doesn't measure up.

Hmmm... the thing is, the economic crisis is one p...

2008-09-25T06:06:25.505-07:00

Hmmm... the thing is, the economic crisis is one particularly big thing spanning months and you cannot just keep that on the front page day in day out (unless there are specific news events like the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the bailout of AIG, which did receive front page time).

Anyway, go to [[Portal:Current events]] and see that under the "Ongoing events" sidebar section, there is a link to [[World economic crisis]] AND [[Subprime mortgage crisis]] for your perusal.

As for the methane item, I'm not that familiar enough with it to see whether that item does merit "air time" like you say.

(what does $700 billion even look like?)We've squa...

2008-09-24T17:50:24.801-07:00

(what does $700 billion even look like?)

We've squandered more than that on the the latest Gulf War.

I have heard (largely from complaints) that the mo...

2008-09-24T11:54:17.003-07:00

I have heard (largely from complaints) that the more obscure news stories are to counteract systemic bias that comes with Americans and Europeans dominating the English language and therefore the English language Wikipedia.

In other words, shit --> mouth.