[Vision2020] Lewiston Tribune Under Focus

[Pat Kraut]

Comes under the heading of 'all politics is local...all news is local'. If a local soldier died we'd care a great deal more but this was far away and therefore not 'our' news. Yes, it is a sadness but also remember that a good many of us are going on the net to get far more news than they could publish. It would be interesting to know or guess how many only read the LMT or Daily News. I bet it is less and less. As a matter of fact isn't it part of the reason Newspapers are failing...too much opportunity to get more news elsewhere? 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ted Moffett 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 11:50 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Lewiston Tribune Under Focus



  All:

  I was amazed and dismayed to read the Friday, Feb. 3, 2006 edition of the Lewiston Morning Tribune, given the choices made regarding what deserves front page focus, and what does not.  Four articles dominated the front page:  one on wolves delisting, Bush seeking 120 billion more for wars, Orofino teenagers, and something about a Lapwai man and Pres-to-Logs... 

  Then I was astonished to read on the left hand lower corner of page 3 a small article, with a tiny headline, notifying us that 5 more US soldiers had died in combat in Iraq in the past week.

  I know that many Iraq war supporters think the US media focuses too much on the negative news from Iraq, but does putting notice of the deaths in the past week of 5 US soldiers, who gave their lives to defend us, deserve nothing more than a tiny article with a tiny headline in the left hand lower corner of page 3? 

  Have we become that callous to the horror of the war in Iraq, to the ultimate sacrifices of our soldiers when they die in combat, that Pres-to-Logs are a more important subject?

  Or did the Tribune make a decision that the deaths of US soldiers in Iraq are not the proper subject to best sell their newspaper at this time?  Has coverage of the deaths of US soldiers in Iraq become so easily accepted that they are not deemed newsworthy enough to be featured on the front page? 

  Am I wrong to suggest something is amiss here in the Tribune's coverage?  What am I overlooking or overemphasizing?

  Ted Moffett


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