A difference in outlook between papers

Being a "news junkie" I get both the Schenectady Gazette and the Albany Times-Union every day. I was interested in the handling of the story on the death of North Korea's Kim Jung Il. The Gazette had the story on page one, right edge, with a color photo of the late leader. I thought that was about right, a change in leadership of a major nuclear anti-American nation is going to cause uncertainty in the region, and certainly given the number of cars and other goods we get from Korea and Japan any possible disruptions in that area could cause economic disruption locally on some scale.

The Times-Union gave about an inch of coverage on the front page in the "Other News" listings on the fold edge of the page, about half of which was occupied by a picture of a woman dancing around a Christmas tree. The actual news coverage was inside, and was also just a reprint of the same wire service story which appeared in the Gazette.

Same story, but very different treatment. It certainly shows differences in production policies, and as the son of a newspaperman I probably find it more interesting that the average reader.