Today my print version of the Guardian led with two big stories on the front page. One announced that economists were sometimes (quite often) wrong in their predictions and had failed to predict either the Great Crash of 2008 or the relative lack of crisis following Brexit.
The second story featured the case of a man who was born in Britain of German parents and had lived all his life in the UK but was inelegible for a UK passport. It seems he could not prove his mother was actully in the UK when he was born. He is being required to take a citizenship test.
What makes these items important enough to splash on the front pag? Economists being wrong is hardly a news item, and of all the hunan interest stories to run with, the choice of the UK resident unable to just get a UK passport is hardly up there.
Both these items were pulled from the front page, it seesm,as news developed, but the choice of putting them there in the first place is revealing. They are only 'news' if you still think Brexit is the main news story evenif they fail to hit all the right notes for a news story - -being topical, relevant and so on
By comparison, the Times led with the row between Trump and his intelligence chiefs
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