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What Makes News News?

I was browsing the Boston Globe on-line this morning and found the following headlines: “Nearly 100 pigs run riot on highway“, “‘Boots’ takes gold at the Ferret Olympics“, “Kids plus rocks equals 120,000 angry bees“. In disgust, I had to check out other newspapers to see if their headlines were just as bad: New York […]