That explains why Firefox kept underlining it in red.

News that happens, say, in Melbourne is highly relevant to us. It affects people we know, in a culture we understand. The information is often immediately applicable in terms of changed behaviours.

Most news that happens way off overseas, no matter how compelling, either has a long-delayed effect or none at all, and this when combined with the cultural and language barriers renders most of this sort of news an unsatisfying hybrid of tall tale and useless factoid.

It’s just a shame, I think, that it’s considered such a news faux pas to twist the facts to make them more useful to people

Except, you spelt “chieftains” wrong THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH.

Love,

DK

The discussion before the story is also quite an interesting concept.
In some ways I agree that for the purposes of delivering moral lessons stories should not be constrained by factual occurrences, however I’d also say that the purpose of the news paper isn’t really to deliver that sort of lesson (except maybe through editorials and/or talk pages) but more to simply notify people of things that have occurred and let people draw their own conclusions.

The fact that journalists believe they have to teach a lesson out of their stories is mostly something to satisfy their own ego, letting them believe their job is more important than it is.