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Originally Posted by ElkHunter
I find it funny that it is even news worthy. Sounds like the papers up there are as bad as the paper down here.
Down here, 2 tornado's can touch down in a town 30 miles away and it's not in the paper, however, the fire department being called to get a cat out of a tree will hit page 2.
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The story is about the crackdown on homeless/transient workers using the facility, which, in my opinion, is as newsworthy as the "banning living in rv's" story. The human waste element is symbolic of the overall problems facing Western ND. The journalist recognizes this symbolism and the simultaneous revulsion/attraction and subsequent reaction that the mention of human feces will provoke amongst the newspaper's readership.
Stories like this increase readership and sell advertising. The old formula was car wrecks, anything to do with sex (scandals, abuse, prostitution etc.), and murder (the grislier the better). Weather events don't sell. If you're hiding in a root cellar, no one has to tell you that a tornado touched down. Human behavior is more secretive and subtle, thus we have the press to inform us when members of the community deviate from what we deem proper behavior.
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