A colleague told me yesterday that the news of the 35W bridge collapse was so dominating national & global news that it was even the lead story on Al-Jazeera. I didn't have a chance to look at the website until today, and while it's not on the front page, it is still the lead story on the "Americas" section of the website. Interesting!
It's always hard to gauge the extent that a story in our back yard will be interesting to the rest of the world. I was in Philly on Tuesday when the Wolves traded Garnett, and was pleased to find pretty significant coverage in the papers out east.
I'm curious to see how Gov Pawlenty will deal with the national exposure he'll get from this. On the one hand, it raises his name recognition & gives him a chance to be a hero. On the other hand, he's already taking a beating for vetoing the transportation bill this year & being a generally "no new taxes" kind of guy his whole tenure in office. If he's angling for a Veep spot on someone's ticket next year, he'll have to walk a pretty fine line between now & then. It will be interesting to see how the national news covers him in the process...
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