In normal times David Cameron's criticism of Labour's economic record would have had to include some scathing personal criticism or devastating new statistics for it to get any coverage beyond a nib (news in brief).
Yet the day after Mr Blunkett's retreat, the Daily Mail tucked the story away on page 18, while the Times gave it three paragraphs in a news-in-brief column.
"Millions of Americans are watching right now, " the president told reporters in a brief news conference in the White House Rose Garden.
In a brief news release, state police said the shooting occurred when the boy was "playing" with the rifle, but did not elaborate.
Earlier optimism was in line with a brief rally in GPS shares until news of another 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Japan knocked the wind out of a U.S. stock market rally.
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When Grasso replaced William Donaldson as the Big Board's chief in 1994, Reuters covered the story in a 147-word news brief.
While the total number of mortgages approved did fall slightly to 50K, the overall growth in credit was positive and after a brief wait while investors digested the news and held it against the situation in Europe, the final determination was GBP positive.
He made several public appearances in the hours after the news broke, but only made a brief statement after he was asked a question by a journalist.
An Asian Wall Street Journal news brief said an Indian government member indicated that the Karmapa would accept asylum in India if it were offered.
"If there is anyone who has always believed in Europe, it's me, " he said at a brief news conference at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.
At least 10 news organizations and professional associations have agreed to file a friend of the court brief Thursday or Friday in support of the appeal, said Alonzo Wickers, a partner in the Los Angeles office of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine.
In the early hours of the morning, chief of the armed forces General Lucas Rincon held a brief news conference to say Mr Chavez's resignation had been demanded and accepted.
For example: Typing in Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) turns up a single page with a brief company history including pictures of the founders, a company profile, annual sales, employees, office phone numbers, executive's names, stock charts and recent news.
Every major news organization, from national newspapers to television networks to magazines, was complicit to some degree in selling the public a brief of false information, from Hussein's allegedly terrifying arsenal of weapons of mass destruction to the fictional links between the Iraqi government and al Qaeda.
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