Death on the front pages

Phillip Moore at 35

Another very brief sermon today.  I suspect that I might have even used the caption years ago and that I would have discussed, in layman’s terms, issues related to publishers’ priorities or prerogatives, editorial policy and the fact that, in the print media, bad news attract interest, attention  – and money

Just a little more of the same today. But related to a vicarious, very indirect, connection to a murder on Monday.  This past Tuesday’s Guyana newspapers all screamed of death, murder on their front pages. Even the good-news Chronicle joined the fray and featured news of four tragic deaths which occurred on Monday and over the week-end.

Naturally, various responses from right-minded citizens who still care flowed.  And the implications of the