What a great day to be a newspaper subscriber.
Yesterday, I saw all the tweets and posts about the U.S.
Supreme Court ruling on health care reform, but I did not bother reading the
stories. I knew that a group of reporters and editors was hard at work yesterday
sifting through the ruling, sifting through the stories, getting local
reactions, writing stories and designing news pages containing the most
important, pertinent information for me this morning. Sure enough, my local
papers put together fantastic coverage, giving me all the information I needed
to be informed, including Charles Krauthammer’s interesting take on why he
thinks Chief Justice Roberts ruled the way he did.
Plus, today’s paper also carried a story detailing Idaho’s
new texting while driving ban, more details about John Bujak’s arrest, an
update on yesterday’s Eurozone meeting, a story on Turkey fortifying its border
with Syria and many more. And yes, there was a brief about Ann Curry leaving
the Today show, relegated — rightly — to a small item off to the side (watching
Twitter yesterday made it seem like Curry’s departure was akin to the Kennedy
assassination).
Also, had I been simply trolling the news sites for stories
about the health care ruling, I might have missed the story about asteroid
hunters (Page A6), the story on the decline in child sex abuse cases (Page A7),
the story on the new first lady of Egypt (A6), and the U.S. Attorney General
being held in contempt of Congress.
This doesn’t even yet touch the sports section (Don Larsen
will sell his World Series uniform, Nadal ousted at Wimbledon), the living
section, the business section or the entertainment section.
Yes, I see that the big news of the day today (bigger,
apparently, than the Kennedy assassination) is the divorce of a couple of
actors.
But I’ll wait till tomorrow’s newspaper to get all of my
news presented in a way that puts everything in the proper perspective.
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