Friday, September 12, 2008
I cannot honestly believe that the front page story was about Tropical Sno on the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11. I am very surprised and saddened that flavored ice has the least bit of significance when it comes to this infamous date. Of all the days to run such a story, the Kansan staff chose Sept. 11.
While I can appreciate the fact that most of the staff wasn’t even in high school on Sept.11, 2001, it doesn't excuse the ignorance displayed today. Sept. 11 has forever changed the world we live in, and there wasn't even one mention of it in the entire paper.
Maybe next year we can have a story about what soda flavor is the best on Sept. 11 — that should be an appropriate way to remember the thousands of people who died that day.
This truly was a despicable choice for news.
—Craig Potthast is a senior from Norfolk, Neb.
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Comments
Letter: Newspaper overlooked most important story
i am curious how a snow cone kid makes the front page on a day when the jayplay comes out. don't we have enough fluffy features on thursday, especially on such a monumental date in history (it's our generation's defining moment, thus its modern-day relevance, especially while still in W.'s term). or, you could have run the freshman senate elections, or something newsworthy. but, nope, 130 flavors.
Letter: Newspaper overlooked most important story
I don't think that anybody said there needed to be a "front page splash." Running such a useless story rather than something important, whether it be this upcoming, monumental election or 9/11, is stupid. As for hermeschick, I think it would be a great idea to run stories on Pearl Harbor or OKC bombings. What is so bad about remembering the past? I think Hugh said it the best... don't we have enough fluffy features?
Letter: Newspaper overlooked most important story
I disagree. Each year, for the 6 years prior, the image of the Twin Towers with smoke billowing out of them has graced the front page of every newspaper. Sure, it's the defining moment of our generation, but why dwell on the past? I'm sure that the Kansan editorial staff thought long and hard about whether to include Sept 11 in the paper, but it comes to a point where you have to just treat it like every other day of the year. They told where the Sept 11th memorial was going to be held, and that's that.
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