Our local newspaper once had someone they identified as an omnsbundman (but he was not a farmer), as a contact for readers to comment. When I contacted him regarding a great positive story they were not covering, his response was that it was not news. As we talked it came down to the idea that it was mostly bad news that was newsworthy.

In another instance with another newspaper, the local newspaper was resistant to covering women’s and girl’s sports, not just locally but nationally. The editor used crude and vulgar language to explain to me what he considered sports, maintaining strictly masculine criteria. This story got wild. His son was later convicted of being a rapist, and then his wife was convicted of putting a hit out on the judge in the case.