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...long, the American public has swayed and sighed with every minor fluctuation in the case of the notorious Elian Gonzalez. His personal wellbeing is the subject of conversation across Miami-Dade county. No detail is too small not to warrant mentioning in national publications. When federal agents forcibly removed him from his Miami relatives' home, the Associated Press story, carried in major newspapers (including The Crimson), reported that play-doh was provided so that he could relieve his stress...
...recall reading about any of these events on the title pages of major U.S. papers and magazines. I do, however, remember that Elian Gonzalez received Play-Doh on the flight between Miami and Washington. Leaders and representatives from 133 developing countries congregating in Cuba and listening to Fidel Castro should rank higher in the order of newsworthy events than the psychological impact of Play-Doh on a kid named Elian who got to see Disney World...
...these events worthy to fill only a two-inch column of text. Even worse, the information was located on page 18 of the newspaper, just to the left of the U.S. temperature map. Eighteen pages earlier, the day's top headline proclaimed "U.S. Will Let Friends From Cuba Visit Elian," which was closely followed by the revelation that Jon Benet Ramsey's parents rejected a lie detector test...
...course, there are newspapers that do have their priorities straight. On April 12, when most other papers designed their front pages around an article mentioning Elian's planned meeting with his father, the Washington Post pushed the issue to the side to make space for a lead article on Ethiopia's striking famine. But these attempts to balance the news of children dying at a rate of a dozen a day in some Ethiopian towns with the fate of a cute six-year-old are too rare...
...Elian Gonzalez: Childish Gambino...