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<DIV><FONT size=4>Ted, et al,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The same problem exists with the <EM>LMT</EM>'s little,
forlorn sister, the <EM>Daily News</EM>. Human interest stories,
sob-sister stories, sports stories, etc all have interests for various
readers of newspapers and it is fine for the newspapers to appeal to a diversity
of reader interests.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>However though, isn't it most important for a newspaper
to give prominence, front page or otherwise, to those stories with the
most significant impact on our world, country, state, region, etc, and to
subjects which describe ongoing processes we as citizens can attempt to do
something about?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The Presto-Log story was interesting and a good read, but
front page? Has the newspaper industry, local and otherwise, became so
whorish, that they have forgotten the importance of their role of informing the
public on vital matters and instead sell themselves using puff
pieces?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Perhaps the news production staff and culture at both the
<EM>LMT</EM> and the <EM>Daily News</EM> needs a through review and
housecleaning.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 04, 2006 11:50 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Lewiston Tribune Under Focus</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>All:</DIV>
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<DIV>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...
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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? </DIV>
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<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV>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? </DIV>
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<DIV>Am I wrong to suggest something is amiss here in the Tribune's
coverage? What am I overlooking or overemphasizing?</DIV>
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<DIV>Ted Moffett</DIV>
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