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If you read yesterday's blog, you may have noticed a glaring story omission. Unless you've been living under a rock and didn't catch the 24-hour Heath Ledger Death-A-Thon on CNN, Heath Ledger is dead. I don't want to brag, but I CALLED IT! Well, not the death part, no one could see that one coming, horrible tragedy and what not. What I did call was the story taking front page news over at our friends the Ottawa Sun.
WHOO! Biggest headline on the front page! They did not disappoint. Let's examine the stories that took the silver medal to "HEATH LEDGER DEAD AT 28 - Hollywood In Shock, Young Ottawa Co-Star 'Sad'" (check out the random "PILLS" at the bottom of that).

-Son Charged In Murder - Grizzly family murder story? FUCK THAT, LEDGER'S DEAD!
-Not Enough Jump - Surely, a losing local sports team must be bigger than a movie star dying? Guess again.
-The Manley Report on Afghanistan - The biggest story in the Citizen and really every other paper in Canada has been regulated to a header at the Ottawa Sun, with the writer's name and picture taking over 1/3rd of the header space.
-Plus All The Oscar Noms! - Can't forget the Oscar noms, even though you can barely see it on the front page.

And not a single mention of the world's ACTUAL biggest story: stock market turbulence. I guess that doesn't really sell papers; you have to spice it up. "STOCK MARKETS HIT TURBULENCE OVER TROUBLED PACIFIC OCEAN WHILE DODGING MISSILES. TWO DEAD, DOZENS INJURED."