Oh, Is There A Wedding Tonight?

A FrontBurnervian is aghast at the News’, er, coverage:

Maybe it’s just me, but it’s kind of incredible that the daughter of the President of the United States, a former Texas governor, is getting married today just down the road from Dallas (where the bride was born and lived until she was 13) — and it was not on the front page of the DMN today. Not only was it not on the front page, I couldn’t find much of anything about it in the paper. I went to the website, and found an AP story, and a wedding-oriented blog written by Michael Granberry and Alan Peppard. Who the hell wants to have to search a blog for information about this wedding? Little old ladies love these kinds of stories. Does Belo expect them to navigate to a blog for their Jenna wedding updates? It’s nuts.

I know the newsroom has got to be pressed for resources, but it’s embarrassing not to have something written locally about the Jenna Bush wedding. How hard would it have been to have tracked down people in Dallas who knew her when she went to Preston Hollow and Hockaday? Nobody expects Woodward and Bernstein, for cripes sake, but isn’t it a no-brainer that you do a colorful, light-as-cotton-candy wedding feature on the day the president’s DALLAS-BORN daughter gets married WITHIN YOUR CIRCULATION AREA?! Don’t you think that there might be a few people who read the DALLAS Morning News who are interested in this story? I’m not a reporter, and I don’t really care about Jenna Bush or her wedding, but it’s a slow Saturday, and I was interested in what unique take the local press would have on a north Texas social event the likes of which we haven’t seen … ever. Are they that hard-pressed for warm bodies down there at the Belo cave, or do you think they just aren’t going to lift a finger to give press to the daughter of a Republican president? I await your analysis.

Me, I have no analysis. I just continue to shake my head. Did any FrontBurnervians see how the S-T covered it in its print edition this morning?