While this whole discussion is a bit preliminary, I recently added a new category with the somewhat awkward name of “Press Coverage Holes” (… I’m open to suggestions for a clearer term!). Anyway, this is something I’ve been particularly eager to do with my blogs. I intend to add such a category to most of my blogs (more are coming) because I think this is something that has been sorely lacking.

Not that I mean that everyone should necessarily have such a category, but I learned a long time ago that my own particular giftings were such that I was often aware of a lot of things going on that the press were ignoring, for whatever reason.

I don’t want to get into this too much right now, but I recall - as a particularly vivid example - in the 1970’s during the period of the killing fields in Cambodia reading small articles in the newspaper, etc., about what was going on. Years later, when the movie came out, the common reaction was, “If we had only known!” Of course, in the 70’s the articles were in the back of the paper and the atrocities weren’t described in detail or even in proper scale, but the events were known (and knowable to the average American) at the time. The same is going on today. There are always things going on that are known and ought to be front-page news, or at least get covered much more extensively, but aren’t.

So I’m hoping that by adding such a category I can at least occasionally draw attention to something that deserves a closer look. If you’re a journalist needing a story to write about, maybe I can get WordPress to allow you to find “holes” in particular categories of mine that are pertinent to you.

I don’t expect too many such entries in this blog. All Things is about my interests, hobbies, reading, etc., but I think it would get spread too thin if I tried to discuss current events here. So I’m planning to start a separate blog for that, probably with Blogsome at first, if it will let me have two.