Hal Morris, writing on his Grumpy Editor blog, notes that many media published more coverage of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan going to court than the capture by pirates of a U.S.-bound supertanker that provides one fifth of daily U.S. crude imports.
“Full front-page photos of her, attired in a tight-fitting white dress, appeared yesterday in the New York Post, Daily News and AM New York while The Los Angeles Times gave her three-column, front-page art with a story on an inside page.
“Even The Wall Street Journal gave the actress far more space (an inside three-column photo, with caption only) than the captured supertanker which was wrapped up in one-and-a-half sentences distilled from an Associated Press story.”
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