Slow News Day?

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel truly has me baffled this time.

Oh, January 7, the ran this story highlighting the problems that the arrogant and hapless Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is creating at the House of Corrections by leaving staff to thin and spread out, creating a risk to safety and security at that institution.

I remember it because I wrote this post on the very same day, reflecting the story.

As I sat down this morning for my morning coffee and a quick breakfast, I noticed that there was a story about HOC in the morning paper. As I read it, I quickly realized that it was the exact same story as two weeks ago. In fact, if you go to JSOnline and click on the story, it comes up to the same story I wrote about two weeks ago. Same URL and everything.

Now, to be perfectly honest, I don't remember if this story was in the paper two weeks ago, and my copy of said issue is well on its way to being recycled. But whether it ran two weeks ago or not, it still raises some interesting questions.

If it did run two weeks ago, as I think it did, then why are they running it again? Slow news day?

If it didn't run two weeks ago, why not? It was clearly set to go, so why did they hold it for that long? Were they waiting for a slow news day? I don't know if I would qualify this as a slow news time, with all the saturation of tomorrow's historic inauguration, the Superbowl contenders being determined, Packer's news, MLK day, police shootings, etc. So why the delay?

Or was it that they felt the need to respond to this post, which I wrote last Friday, which told of events that weren't in their article, and that they haven't covered at all? I would think that the people in Milwaukee County, especially those in Franklin, where the House of Correction is located, would want to know that the local lock up is still having major problems, again due to poor management.