No, I’m just pointing out that when making decisions about what and how to cover things there are practical concerns.
There is a lot to cover about the OKC bombing. There isn’t a lot you can do with Elian Gonzales. Big deal or not, other than a blurb about it being the anniversary what can be done unless Cuba lets you in to talk to him?
Abortion is way to divisive for any major news organization to cover as a tragedy. What Stalin did isn’t exactly local.
It isn’t just about the tragedy, but the interest people have in it. That is why, the anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s suicide made news last year, but not this year. Where his daughter was, the other members of Nirvana, the effect Nirvana still has on music. Those things give you something to cover and stuff people would be interested in, even if not most on FR. There is stuff to cover in OKC. That people think this wouldn’t be happening regardless of the Tea Party movement isn’t accurate.
I agree that there IS a news element to the OKC memorial in Oklahoma with some national coverage. However Bill Clinton jumped the gun and already has used that event (and anniversary) to smear the Tea Parties.
It is HYSTERIA to draw that conclusion.
Recall that in his final years in office, Bill Clinton sent the FBI on a goose chase looking into a (non)racist “rash” of Southern church fires INSTEAD of following up on Al Qaeda agents in America who’d overstayed travel visas and were training to fly jet airliners with no interest in learning how to land.
In the wake of the discovery of Project Bojinka, our investigative resources were wrongly misused for partisan propaganda purposes.
There are even possible ties between Terry Nichols and the Phillipines plot. But the impeached president still uses a tragic event to smear his opposition.
Will we see anniversaries of the Kobar Towers bombing? The USS Cole bombing?