(One of) My teacher('s) once told me (and my class) a story about a newspaper. The main new of the day was a dog, who had been saved from drowning in the Thames (in London, if I'm not quite wrong). It was a little qute dog, and why his owners threw him into the Thames is beyond my knowledge. This story got the whole (what do you call it?) middle sides (you know ,where the main News is) and a coupple of more background on the subject. And in the corner there was a small note with the headline: 200 000 dead in Bangladesh...
Paper articles are usually broken down into different types, main news (what's considered the most important of the day) and human interest stories (the little things that fill the empty slots throughout the paper, and then perhaps some humourous stuff here and there.
Mad to think that a story of a dog would take perference over the Bangladesh thing, sounds like the tsumai in 1991 that killed near that amount.
But that would be the fault of one paper. Wouldn't be right to deride 'all papers' because some of them are rubbish... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />
