Steve Irwin: national hero
Steve Irwin died today after being stabbed in the chest by a stingray.
The news started off reasonable size with a top of the page article on smh.com.au, but by the time I was going home from work the story had stretched to a banner image of Steve and a goanna across most of the page, and now there's 3 articles and video, photos, a pop-up location map, and a link to "Your Say: Vale Steve Irwin".
Or not.
The last time I remember such a huge spread across the SMH site was September 11.
So I guess Steve passing is an important event. Or not.
The news started off reasonable size with a top of the page article on smh.com.au, but by the time I was going home from work the story had stretched to a banner image of Steve and a goanna across most of the page, and now there's 3 articles and video, photos, a pop-up location map, and a link to "Your Say: Vale Steve Irwin".
Or not.
The last time I remember such a huge spread across the SMH site was September 11.
So I guess Steve passing is an important event. Or not.
posted by lynn at 8:24 pm
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