Major newspapers around the world and in Montreal gave huge play to the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Which of these reasons best describes the near-unanimous decision to put this on front pages?
- The news media is starting to seriously pay attention to international news, giving it the importance it deserves.
- The news media hasn’t changed. The assassination of a top political figure is an unusual and important story.
- The news media is desperate for a real news story in the otherwise dead year-in-review banked-feature time around Christmas and New Years.
- She’s hot.