NYT Front|Back: Old Campaign Signs vs. Ongoing Genocidal Slaughter

FRONT:

After Vote, Public Demands Change of Scenery
What's on the minds of most Americans after handing the Republicans and the Bush administration a resounding defeat last Tuesday? You guessed it: taking down those darn campaign signs as soon as possible. They are eyesores...and, and...it's just rude to have them up longer than they should be. This is today's lead cover story in The New York Times. A report so pitifully unnewsworthy it would seem a tragic waste of space even for the back pages.

Intro:

Election Day has come and gone, and now comes the true test for candidates: how well they clean up after themselves. With a bumper crop of more than 20 million campaign signs this election season, the race has begun.

“Only shallow candidates have lots of volunteers ready to put the signs out but not enough volunteers ready to take them down,” said Steve Grubbs, a former Iowa legislator and founder of VictoryStore.com, which sold more than five million yard and roadway signs this year, double the number from 2004. “It’s a lot of signs to deal with, but they’re slackers if they can’t get them down within a week of the election.”

For some, that is too long to wait.

BACK (Page A9):

Sudan: Dozens Killed in Darfur Attack
Over 400,000 already dead. Over 2 million displaced. The genocide in Darfur continues. The most The Times can muster about the latest violence? A diminutive Reuters reprint buried nine pages deep.

Intro (which happens to be the whole article):

Up to 30 villagers were killed and 40 wounded when armed men riding horses and camels attacked a village in the western Darfur region, an African Union official said. The attackers are suspected to be the janjaweed, the Arab militiamen who have been slaughtering black Africans across the region. The three-hour attack on Saturday was on Sirba in West Darfur State, close to the Sudan-Chad border. Yesterday, Chad declared a state of emergency in the capital, Ndjamena, and some eastern areas on the Sudanese border where raiders on horseback have killed hundreds of non-Arab villagers in attacks in recent weeks.

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Old Campaign Signs vs. Ongoing Genocidal Slaughter