Writing on HumanEvents.com, Oliver North takes exception with “the mainstream media’s” news judgment. North writes:

“This week the so-called mainstream media fixated on a Baghdad shoe-throwing contest, more government bailout bucks and the delightful prospect of having Caroline Kennedy appointed to Hillary Clinton’s vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. The potentates of the press gave short shrift — or simply ignored — two far more important news stories: the first-ever assembly of Latin American leaders gathered to stick it to the United States, and the passing of a great conservative leader (Paul Weyrich) who helped Ronald Reagan become one of America’s greatest presidents.”

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran the story of Bush’s surprise visit to Baghdad — complete with shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist — on Page One Monday.  That seems a no-brainer, regardless of political persuasion. Since then, the Post-Dispatch has run two shoe-thrower stories and two digest items inside the A section, and one commentary piece on the Opinion pages.

The Post-Dispatch has had exhaustive coverage of the bailout developments. Again, without apology.

It seems odd to consider that either story is less important than North’s picks.

For the record: Caroline Kennedy’s candidacy has appeared three times in the Post-Dispatch’s short roundup of national news — twice as one-sentence items. The Latin summit appeared in the world digest, as a three-paragraph item. Mr. Weyrich’s obituary moved after midnight this morning, too late to be in today’s paper.  (Editors raced against final edition deadlines to get in this morning’s paper the late news of the death of Mark Felt, Watergate’s Deep Throat.)