Yahoo to Blacksburg: Never mind
So Money magazine came out with a list last week, “Best Places to Retire Young.” It listed 10 cities:
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Charlottesville, VA
Logan, UT
Blacksburg, VA
Burlington, VT
Anacortes, WA
Sarasota, FL
Hanover, NH
Manhattan, KS
Ames, IA
Yahoo, which has a content deal with CNN/Money, then featured the same list on its site, even citing CNNMoney.com as the source. It was published on April 13, the day before the Virginia Tech shootings. There was one crucial difference. Here’s Yahoo’s nine city list:
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Charlottesville, VA
Logan, UT
Burlington, VT
Anacortes, WA
Sarasota, FL
Hanover, NH
Manhattan, KS
Ames, IA
Somehow, between CNN and Yahoo, Blacksburg was taken off the list. Odd, huh? Is the logic that after last week’s shootings on the Virginia Tech campus Blacksburg is no longer as good a place to live? Or did someone at Yahoo think it was a way of showing respect?
For those who prefer the visual, here’s the CNN-list entry for Blacksburg on CNN (click any image to enlarge):
And here it is on AOL:
But here’s the relevant portion of the Yahoo page:
Vince says:
I think you might be reading too much into this. You said “It was published on April 13, the day before the Virginia Tech shootings.” So how could the shootings even affected their results?