Washington Post on a Role: Facebook Coverage Staying Off A1; Will it Last?

It's April 15, 2010, and you know what that means, right?!

Yep, the Washington Post has gone fully SIX MONTHS without putting a Facebook-focused article on the front page. The Post last fronted Facebook on October 15. Today's front page in fact has a batch of five relatively real news articles, with a combination of local, national, and international stories.

In these six months, the Post's front page has had literally dozens of articles that mention Facebook, but none of those have been largely focused on it, even say this one about fewer people sending snail mail holiday cards (which surely could have turned into a Facebook article if some editor really tried).

The question now is, will it last, or will the Post fall back to its old ways? I've gotten my hopes up before on this, only to have them crushed.

Here's a timeline of the Post's Facebook front-pagers: