A Hole in "News Hole"

Last month The Rake dedicated an issue to the stories that we missed while we were reading about the bridge collapse (“News Hole”). While we in Minnesota were asleep at the bridge, we didn’t notice that people concerned for a free Tibet traveled to China and hung a banner on the Great Wall. These protesters (one of whom was from the Twin Cities) spent thirty-six hours in detention before being deported. Talk about missing a story. This was news to National Press Canada, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Al Jazeera, CNN, Sydney Herald, Reuters India, Radio Free Asia, The Toronto Star, The Guardian in London, Channel 4 News in the U.K., The Cambridge Evening News in the U.K., The Globe and Mail in Canada, RadioFreeEurope/Radio-Liberty in the Czech Republic, The Age in Australia, CBC’s The Hour in Canada, The London Free Press in Canada, San Diego Union-Tribune, Brisbane Times in Australia, International Herald Tribune in France, Montreal Gazette in Canada, Gulf Times in Qatar, The Economist in the U.K. … You get the idea. Not only did the Minnesota press miss an international story with a local connection, so did The Rake.