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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 it's newsworthy. Because it's interesting. Because a lot of people want to read it (not including you). You can skip right on to the front-page story about Trinity Rodman, the daughter of NBA player Dennis Rodman, who is set to make her World Cup (soccer) debut for the top-ranked U.S. women, and/or the front-page story about water usage at Saudi alfalfa farms in drought-stricken Arizona. Or, if that's still too soft-news for you, the front-page story about Russian land mines in Ukraine.

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