This Week in Links: Tornadoes unseated as greatest threat to Oklahoma
Bottles lay spilled on the ground in White's
Welcome to This Week in Links, a new and possibly recurring Friday column reviewing the online news of the week with a gentle skepticism.
Hi, I'm Matt. Reading lots of headlines isn't exactly my job, but I do it a lot for my job. In that sense, it's a crude oversimplification, like saying that an accountant does a lot of addition and subtraction.
More often than not, I see an inverse relationship between a headline's news value and the attention it warrants. That's to say that the dumber, simpler and more easily consumable an article is, the more likely it is to garner pageviews. That's not necessarily bad! There's plenty of room for simple or silly stories here on NewsOK. But it does blow the measure of news value out of proportion, and makes it harder to marshal readers' attention to complicated or nuanced stories that may require them to read critically for more than two and a half minutes.
So here, with this column, I'd like to try to return balance to this out-of-whack relationship between news value and attention, by simplifying complicated stories and substantiating frivolous ones. Also, it's Friday, and nobody really wants to learn anything new just before the weekend. So let's look back on the week's news, shall we?
Sandstone bricks from the side of the historic
Sandstone bricks from the side of the historic
After enjoying a long, tyrannical reign of infrequent destruction and chaos, tornadoes no longer pose the greatest long-term threat to Oklahomans. That distinction now belongs to earthquakes, according to
This reprioritizing of things trying to kill us of course comes after scientists recorded the largest earthquake in state history, a 5.8-magnitude temblor that shook sandstone bricks off buildings in
Speaking of exchanges that are difficult to monitor, our one-man
1) The Pruitt's campaign spends the bulk of its money on consultants and travel. Not unusual for a politician of his office.
2) Once money gets into political action committees (PACs) and super PACs, it becomes pretty tricky to track because of how PACs can donate money fairly freely among themselves.
3) Among the donors to Pruitt's super PAC was
Here at about 3:30 into the video below, Chris discusses his story in greater detail:
While we were talking, the bar's manager,
But not all former football stars struggle in arenas outside the gridiron. Former
-- PDS (@PatDStat)
Thanks for reading. We're just over 52 days until the presidential election, but just under 47 until Thunder basketball.
___
(c)2016 The Oklahoman
Visit The Oklahoman at www.newsok.com
Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Branstad fills boards facing high-profile decisions
UPMC now looking at other sites for new South Hills hospital
Advisor News
Annuity News
Health/Employee Benefits News
Life Insurance News