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What's more terrible and unfortunate is the fact that not only is this the top story on CNN and Google News, but today's supreme court decision doesn't even make it onto either page. Not even below the fold.


This shouldn't be surprising at all. Priority in news is not determined by what we might consider to be of real or objective importance.


How many people in the audience that advertisers care about would be affected by Apple tanking?

A lot.

How many people that advertisers care about would be affected by new police evidence rules?

Nowhere near as many.

Seems pretty cut and dried. If advertisers pay the bills you write to the audience they're interested in.


For those of us who are out of the loop, what was todays supreme court decision?


The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that evidence obtained from an unlawful arrest based on careless record keeping by the police may be used against a criminal defendant.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/washington/15scotus.html?h...


Also, mid-article:

The question [...] was whether the requirement established in Apprendi applied to the decision whether a defendant convicted of multiple crimes must serve consecutive or concurrent sentences if the harsher punishment required a judge to find facts not determined by the jury.


Thats not terrible at all. I am rather glad that is not in the likes of breaking news. Somethings should be low key. His life is not everyones business. People who need to know about Mr. Jobs will find out either way.


Actually, the health of a CEO is very much the business of the stockholders of his company.




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