the journal, the trib and fundamental bias

for the most, the broadcast media covers the sensationally bad things that happen in schools.

the journal and trib cover the sensationally good things that happen in schools.

neither covers the day to day existence of average students trying to overcome problems that while not sensational, absolutely do affect their success at school.

neither amy miller (journal), nor susie gran (tribune) has written an article that reflects that they have ever sat down with students and discussed how safe they feel at school; or what they think about adults not modeling the same standard of conduct that they enforce upon students, or how they feel about the enforcement of school rules and enforcement exceptions to those rules, or what they think about the chronically disruptive students, ...

should the sensationally good be reported? should the sensationally bad be reported? of course.

should coverage of the only the sensational dominate the news? of course not; but that's the way it is.

because selling papers is more important than honest and balanced coverage.