My point is it was on the front page of the Trib like it was some big mob story. Honestly these things that wouldn't have even been worth mentioning 40 years ago get 20 inches of column.
I just mean that there is no good mob related news to write about so they blow up the smallest thing in order to sell papers.
You mean like this exciting front page article from Feb 1975
It's easy to aggrandize the past by filtering out the little stuff, but from the newspapers point of view this is a good story. It involves Outfit bosses, rare antiques formerly in the posession of celebrities, avarice and subterfuge by a member of the clergy, and clandestine meetings in a dimly lit trattoria.
If they had found the violin, we would be hearing about a movie deal for the story.
Granted, it's not as exciting as the days when trunk music was bigger than disco, but it's a lot more interesting than this mob news from NYC.
