No, not in the real world, but in The Washington Post.  I’ve commented before on how the Post has gone from must-read to afterthought in my news consumption habits.  Today’s print edition is a particularly egregious example of why that is the case.

Here’s a rough guesstimate of the number of column inches devoted to some major stories in the Post today:

• Cindy McCain puff piece in the Style section 51
• Chandra Levy (yes, that Chandra Levy)              36
• Obama in Iraq/Maliki timetable 30
• McCain’s wacky wacky Grandpa 26
• Karadzic arrest 25

Here’s a list of the things I learned from the front section of today’s Post that I hadn’t already gleaned from online sources (not counting a story on a proposed RV ban in Montgomery, County, MD):

• Salmonella-tainted jalapenos found in Texas
• Russian government offices are having a hard time deciding whether to hang photos of Medvedev or Putin
• Russian bombers could be deployed to Cuba in retaliation for US missle defense system
• An Italian Capuchin monk has released his second heavy metal CD (alas, no online link)

So basically for my 50 cents, I learned about the Russian bomber story (which got fewer column inches than the Medvedev-Putin portrait story).  Oh, and McCain’s feisty Grandpa (if I had actually read it).  In fairness, the metal monk story was pretty cool, but that was just a caption and a photo.

So what exactly is the Post selling here?  I can’t be the only person who finds it increasingly irrelevant.

Where do you get your international news?

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