Red Lake Story Fading from Front Pages

With a few notable exceptions, the story of the deadly rampage on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota is fading from America's front pages faster than you can say "not Columbine"—just as some predicted. "My guess is that probably less than 10 percent of the papers are playing it on the front page at this point—if that many," Paul Sparrow, executive producer for media at the Newseum in Arlington, Va., which daily displays the front pages of 337 newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, told Journal-isms today. Sparrow said he was surprised that even in nearby areas, the coverage had been pushed inside. On Tuesday, the Twin Cities City Pages predicted: "Expect the story to fall off the national media radar much faster than Columbine did, as media absorb the fact that this happened on an Indian reservation and involved Native American victims." [more]