Here are the top stories as of late afternoon:
- Cromartie election will be April 6 after all — I hate leading with this since it was in the morning paper, but for Columbia readers it’s still the most significant breaking development. Don’t know how I didn’t have this in yesterday’s edition — I need to find out when it broke.
- Senate Approves Last Piece of Health Overhaul — Putting on the finishing touches. Meanwhile, POTUS hits the hustings to ‘splain to Mr. and Mrs. America why health care reform is a good thing. Mr. and Mrs. America, according to polls, are a bit slow on the uptake…
- A Special Tag for Big Red? — I’ve already addressed this subject today.
- Pope accused of failing to act on sex abuse case — More allegations of failures on the part of Cardinal Ratzinger before he became the head guy.
- France Backs German Plan on Greece Aid — Europe getting its act together on helping out the Grecians, as our former president knew them.
- Suspected Bank Robber Jumps off Bridge Over Congaree, Survives — That pretty much says it all. You know, since The State started making John Monk do cops beat, he’s come up with some that rise above the ordinary. This story, by the way, is a classic example of something that would make the front in an afternoon paper, then get buried the next morning. Traditionally. But newspapers don’t follow those traditional patterns any more.
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What DIDN’T made the front today?
Well, I was intrigued by a report flying around on Twitter, passed on by Phil Bailey and Boyd Brown, that Nikki Haley had missed a roll call vote on… her pet issue of roll call votes.
But I didn’t have time to run that down, so there might have been nothing to it…
“You know, since The State started making John Monk do cops beat, he’s come up with some that rise above the ordinary. ”
I think there’s something to be said about really using your A Team. Give people the sensational stuff they think they want, but at a much higher quality…
Apparently, I-77 was closed at the Congaree River while the cops tried to talk him down. Seems awfully newsworthy….the fact that he survived a pretty high fall is also interesting–wonder if the high water levels saved him.
John wrote that he landed in pluff mud…
Just a suggestion, which I don’t know if it’s do-able.
Don’t do the “front page” as a blog item. Make it a permanent part of your layout, maybe over on the side, that can be continually updated.
Burl, you and I are thinking along similar lines. I think it need to be played differently, too. Just haven’t figured out how to do it. I hope to have some technical help soon that might enable me to pull it of…
And people could respond to that (a sidebar sort of Front Page) how?