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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The guy is no doubt a jerk.  [b]But is this now what passes as a front page story in the Washington Post on a Sunday? [/b] It’s like the Post had some insatiable appetite for culture war stories that they try to pump up anything that has the slightest whiff of racism or LGBTQ to it.  We’ve officially reached the point where demand for bigotry exceeds the supply of stories.  [/quote]

Yes, and for good reason. The dispute is impairing the town government's ability to function. If you don't think it's newsworthy, there's an easy solution: don't read the article. [/quote]

Maybe.  But that’s not the story the Post published.  The story they published is “rural bigot targets gay restaurant for no reason” type story.  When in reality the jerk frequented the restaurant himself on many occasions with apparently no one to putting his money in the gay couples pocket.   You’ve got to get about ten paragraphs in before it becomes the “impairing the town government” that you claim it is.  This headline is highly inflammatory and irresponsible and bears no relation to the story itself.  Is there any doubt that if a country western restaurant shared the same parking lot that the same issue would eventually rise with this hot head? Of course they would.  There is a reason the Post’s readership is in free fall and it’s in large part to irresponsible journalism such as this.  Seriously, this story on the front page of the Sunday Post.  [/quote]

Are you not familiar with the very long tradition of putting human interest stories on the front page of a Sunday paper???? Stop pretending to be so shocked at what is not an uncommon practice.

Newspapers, to stay in business, publish a lot of different types of stories to reach the widest audience they can. They always have. If you look at the front pages of the NY Times from 100 years ago you'd also find human-interest stories that you would sneer at as not being news. But they are always interesting.

I for one found it interesting to think about how neighbor disputes can blow up and turn into years-long ugliness that affects a lot more people than just the parties involved. It made me think of the legendary Hatfields vs. McCoys feud. These stories are as old as time.[/quote]

Yes, they happen ALL the time.  Yet this one in particular made it to the front page of a major paper.  Wonder why?[/quote]

Because an editor chose it. That's how all stories get put on the "front page" -- which by the way is a kind of ridiculous thing to be huffy about in this day and age when most people consume news online. Go take a nap, grandpa.[/quote]

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