The Senator Vs. The Princess
Johnson's condition, then, has extremely significant political ramifications. As for the other big story of the day – the Princess Diana report – not so much. It's a nine-year-old tragedy, there is no new information, and the story has no real significance today. So what we have when we look at the media landscape is a classic battle between hard news in the form of the Johnson and soft news in the form of Diana. And we thought it would make for a great test of what CBSNews.com readers are most interested in – as well as how well we can predict what they'll click on. So to that end, we've put a poll up in the top left corner of the Public Eye main page that allows you to vote on which story will be most popular today. Cast your vote and stay tuned – we'll discuss the results at the end of the day.
UPDATE, 5:00 PM: The day is winding down, and, in what really must be considered good news, the Tim Johnson story is resting comfortably in first place. Princess Diana didn't even take the silver – that went to "Possible Leads In 'Suffolk Strangler' Case," with the Di story coming in third. I'll admit, cynic that I am, that I expected Di to take the top spot. Luckily, a lot of you aren't as cynical as me. 44 percent of respondents said the Di story would win the day, but the majority – 56 percent – took the Johnson story. Optimists, we salute you.