My morning routine is very much a routine: I check two of my favorite sites, The Pirate’s Cove and The Other McCain, and tweet out links to any new stories they have; I think that any extra publicity for sites which have supported mine is appropriate. I check my own site, and then I go to my news sources, with The Philadelphia Inquirer always being the first one I check. Today’s front page of the dead trees edition is screen capped to the right, but I checked the print edition for one reason: always being the first one I check. Today’s front page of the dead trees edition is screen capped to the right, but I checked the print edition for one reason: the story on the killing of Yahya Simwar, the biggest story of yesterday, was nowhere to be found on the Inky’s main page, at least as of 8:30 AM EDT.

There was nothing in the headline section, nor in the, in descending order, sections on The Region, Food & Drink, Sports, Politics, Inquirer Newsletters, Health & Science, Arts & Entertainment, Education, Nation & World, Opinion, and finally, Crime. The only story in which Mr Sinwar’s death was noted was in Nation & World, and it was an opinion piece by columnist Trudy Rubin. In the first sentence of Mrs Rubin’s column were hyperlinks to news stories on it, one from The New York Times, and two from The Washington Post. What, an Inquirer columnist couldn’t find even one news story about the most important news story of yesterday in her own newspaper?

I went through her column, and checked every hyperlink she had included, and none linked back to the Inquirer. There were two “Read More” blurbs, but both were links to other opinion columns by Mrs Rubin.

I have frequently used the spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’, as I have in this article’s headline, which comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. And I have to ask, how does our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper, older than the Times and the Post, winner of many Pultizer Prizes, relegate the killing of the terrorist who started the unholy war in Gaza, which has led to the deaths of dozens of thousands of people, to just yesterday’s news?