When readers opened their Monday morning papers and saw a story about the GOP convention coming to Tampa in two years, they were probably expecting to read about the convention, who was on tap to speak, where it would be held, some of the issues that would be taken up by the GOP, perhaps even a sentence or two about candidates who were hoping to become the next President of the United States.
What they got instead was a story that briefly glossed over the fact that the GOP convention would be held in Tampa and then going straight for the stories that would sell the news. It was almost as if the fact that the GOP convention was coming to the fair city of Tampa was just a hook to reminisce about the really big stories the newspaper has run in the past.
From the Super Bowl in 2009 and a laughing stock baseball team to elusive monkey sightings and the exploits of the Hulk Hogan family, just about every big news item over the past 10 years to hit the Tampa Bay area was discussed as an alternative to the news that the GOP convention was coming to Tampa Bay. Bigger than the GOP you say? Why yes, what about the teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year old boy or the woman who's right to life was played out for two weeks in Tampa?
This begs the question. How many more newspaper reporters are having a difficult time finding anything even slightly interesting to report about the GOP?
