What you missed in today's DMN

This is the first in a series of posts that will become a regular Pegasus News feature: For intrepid users who fear that they are somehow missing something by abandoning the Dallas Morning Snooze, we'll provide a daily summary of the high points gleaned from their locally generated content.

Part of what we think local news has wrong is that they spend a tremendous amount of their resources on national/international news and/or general nonlocal features. Those resources could and should be dedicated to local news. The irony is that the local reporter covering the nonlocal item usually isn't in as good a position to provide meaningful coverage and insight as someone who covers that beat every single day.

Each day, we'll provide a list of the stories that shouldn't have been, and (where applicable) a link to a better outside resource.

Without further ado, the first edition of "What you missed in today's DMN":

1. Dubya has friends at energy companies.
   Bet they held the presses for that one.
2. There have been protests at the RNC.
   I won't beat this dead horse for long-- but what, exactly, do the DMN reporters bring to the table that the NYT folk don't? And two reporters, no less? Put one on the mayor and one on the city manager.
3. You can buy insurance for lots of things.
   How about obsolescence?
4. Stress effects the body.
   A fine story, but you could get this from any number of medical sites.
5. The National Enquirer, which has been around for about twenty years, has had an impact on newspapers. Its longtime editor has written a book.
   Nothing in the story that you can't get from the Amazon review.