Small country gets ink in small paper

This evening before class, against my better judgment, I picked up a copy of the Spartan Daily. The cover story appeared to be about playing with puppies (a safe topic, see my previous post), a credit union, some fundraiser, a series of technology speakers and the possibility of banning Skype on campus. I shuffled through the paper fairly unimpressed, but forgiving because the semester has just started. The usual opinion piece dominated page two, and page three was the normal injection of sports. The news jumped to page four, filled with the rest of the campus stories. Generally, the remainder of the paper is filled with wire stuff, as was the case today. And there it was: Israel! From puppies to Israel. Hmm. It's not like there weren't any other wire stories, like a massive E coli spinach recall? I understand that including global events is fun and exciting, but whatever happened to all those great things we learn in j-school about localizing events?