I suppose that I shouldn’t really be surprised.

Not everybody reads the newspaper, or, in my case, the digital newspaper, in the morning of New Year’s Day, and, when it comes to The Philadelphia Inquirer, some of the stories the editors think less important disappear quickly. Oh, they don’t disappear forever, but unless you know where to look, you won’t find them on the main page of the Inquirer’s website.

But the tweet reproduced at the right^[1]This is a screenshot, but if you click on the image, it will take you to the Inquirer’s original. sure seems to characterize the newspaper well. An actual gun battle in the city’s streets, something I would see as a rather important story, disappeared from the main page, though there were two stories on it buried deeply.

Instead, in the main page’s “Latest” column, screen captured at 8:44 AM EST today, and reproduced below — you can click on the image to enlarge it — those stories were gone, gone, gone, while the advertising article noted in the tweet was prominently featured. I’ve said it before: black lives don’t matter to the editors of the Inquirer, but it seems that advertorial money certainly does.

A site search for Club Risqué failed to turn up anything in the Inquirer over the Philadelphia Police spotting two suspects in the murder in front of Club Risqué, even though the local television station, Fox 29, covered it, as did, as did Robert Stacy McCain, a blogger with roughly zero connection to Philadelphia or Pennsylvania.

There are, however, five separate stories referencing the January 6^th Capitol kerfuffle.

It’s so obvious that even the most dyed-in-the-wool liberal ought to be able to see it: the almost entirely white Capitol kerfufflers have already been mostly arrested and charged, and the Justice Department continues to try to identify others, while the two suspects in the Club Risqué murders, suspects who are still on the loose, probably still on the loose in Philadelphia, and whom the police could use help in locating and apprehending, are black.

Nope, much better to have an advertorial on buying glasses on the main page, and that’s because black lives don’t matter to the editors and publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer!