Choosing the Story

This story provides an interesting view inside the mind of the AP reporter and editors. 

Adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notable as a Democrat in the administration, urged the administration to initiate a worldwide system of monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, decades before the issue of global warming came to the public’s attention.

OK, that’s interesting as a little footnote, but don’t you think there might me some interesting stories of more historical relevance in this?

The documents also include about 5,000 pages of now unclassified national security records on the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, correspondence between Nixon and then-British Prime Minister Edward Heath and back-channel Soviet-Israeli relations.

Nah… who wants to do any heavy lifting?  Who cares about America’s involvement in the Arab-Israeli War?  It’s more fun to talk about Global Warming.