With a few notable exceptions, the
story of the deadly rampage on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in
Minnesota is fading from America's front pages faster than you can say
"not Columbine"—just as some predicted. "My guess is that probably less
than 10 percent of the papers are playing it on the front page at this
point—if that many," Paul Sparrow, executive producer for media at the
Newseum in Arlington, Va., which daily displays the front pages of 337
newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, told Journal-isms today. Sparrow
said he was surprised that even in nearby areas, the coverage had been
pushed inside. On Tuesday, the Twin Cities City Pages predicted:
"Expect the story to fall off the national media radar much faster than
Columbine did, as media absorb the fact that this happened on an Indian
reservation and involved Native American victims." [more]
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