http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7958039.stm
Tourists in Iraq! Of course, good news about Bush's war doesn't make the headlines.
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It's been my experience that things that make headlines generally do so for shock value and/or entertainment value.
There are also criticisms like this available, and stories of news people who reported quickly rather than thoroughly.
I could also ask about news stories about guns (lately, it's been guns and Mexico...). For each event like Appleseed, the news value is almost-zero. Nothing crazy happened. For each event like a (almost-certified-mentally-unstable) student shooting up college in Virginia, it is big, shocking news. It gets headlines.
I don't know if the news business has ever been different, but news people have been telling themselves and their audiences otherwise for several generations.
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