Let's see. We have the largest ecological disaster in the history of the planet happening right now, along with a bomb in Times Square and Nashville is now a mermaid paradise.
If I wasn't busy with finals and a cumulative project I would use this time to analyze how newsites are covering each event. Sadly, I don't have that sort of time anymore.
And that "largest ecological disaster" line is only because the TVA coal ash spill from christmas 2008 released only a little over 1 billion gallons of toxic, mildly radioactive gunk into the Tennessee River (don't eat the fish) and THAT was labeled the "worst ecological disaster" and so far, as of today, BP says the oil spill is only 2.7 million (at a rate of 210,000 gallons a day, other estimates put it as high as 12.2 million) but covers 50x150 square miles.
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