3-year-old killed: Front page or P. 15?

It depends on whether the 3-year-old is Jewish or Arab.
Yesterday, the Post put the account of a 3-year-old child killed by a Palestinian rocket on the bottom of p. 15. This may not seem so terrible, but remember that if a Palestinian child is accidentally killed by Israelis, it almost always appears on the front page (which yesterday was too busy with items like week-old discussions pertaining to a possible baseball team in Washington).

The article does not even mention that the child's mother was seriously wounded until the 8th paragraph (where most people have stopped reading)!! If it had been a Palestinian mother, I bet she would have been in the headline too: "3-Year-Old killed, Mother gravely wounded by Israelis". And yes, the headline would have called him a "3-year-old", not just a "boy". (This is not mere speculation; I can give examples.)

Now let's look at today's followup, with the same town (Sderot) being hit by five more rockets during a visit by Prime Minister Sharon. As it happens, the three local papers (Washington Post, Washington Times, and Baltimore Sun) used the same AP account, but with one significant difference: Only the Post truncated the dispatch just before it mentioned the killing of the 3-year-old!!! Of course if a Palestinian child is accidentally killed, the Post is sure to remind its readers for days, if not weeks, afterward.