Deep into the 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 36 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, Sidney Hearald, Reuters India, Radio Free Asia, The Toronto Star, The Guardian London, The Channel 4 News UK, The Cambridge Evening News in the UK, The Globe and Mail in Canada, RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty in the Czech Republic, The Age in Australia, CBC – The Hour in Canada, 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, Economist in UK, … You get the idea. Not only did the Minnesota press miss an international story with a local connection, so did The Rake.