great job, Washington Post!

[winterbadger]

Top story on the front e-page, with art? A Barbie doll convention.

22 stories down the page, after important news like Canada's Wafergate scandal (also with photo), grad school tests, yet another investigation of Marion Barry, baseball scores, train service, and fashion clashes: a five-word, tiny-font headline for their coverage of yesterday's street protests in Iran.

Nothing like having your priorities straight!

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[shy-kat.livejournal.com]

They must have changed it now... Unless you mean the slideshow box, which rotates 4 things.

I've always hated the online layout and what seems to get priority.

[winterbadger]

Yeah, I did mean the slideshow, since it's *the* prominent item on the front page. Yes, they rotate it with some other things, but when I was looking there was only one national/international news story (Honduras) in the mix. And Barbie...? Ugh.

Speaking of Honduras, there were a number of signs being carried by Honduras fans at the Gold Cup match the other night that referred to politics back home. Interestingly, many of them were anti-Zelaya.

[shy-kat.livejournal.com]

We've actually been really impressed at the international news coverage by the local paper here in Burlington. Much better than most of the much bigger US towns I've lived in.