Unfortunately, it often says unpleasant things about where the priorities of the reading public lie.
For example: Fashion designer John Galliono was fired by Christian Dior. This was covered in 157 articles.
Argentine dictators are on trial for orchestrating the kidnapping of hundreds of babies born to torture victims: 4 articles.
Videla, 85, has been sentenced to life in prison, and Bignone, 83, is serving a 25-year term for other crimes committed during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, but this is the first trial focused on the alleged plan to steal as many as 400 infants from leftists who were kidnapped, tortured and made to disappear during the junta's crackdown on political dissent.
There are 13,000 people on the official list of those killed, although rights groups estimate as many as 30,000 died.
The dictatorship generally drew the line at killing children, but the existence of babies belonging to people who officially no longer existed created a problem for the junta leaders.
The indictment alleges they solved it by falsifying paperwork and arranging illegal adoptions by people sympathetic to the military regime.
Some 500 women were known to be pregnant before they disappeared, according to formal complaints from their families or other official witness accounts.
To date, 102 people born to vanished dissidents have since recovered their true identities with the aid of the Grandmothers, which helped create a national database of DNA evidence to match children with their birth families.
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