People said the same thing on Slashdot after 9/11, and they were wrong then, too.
Once-a-generation events, with major impacts that last for decades across an entire region of the world, transcend "news for nerds" guidelines.
Once-a-generation events, with major impacts that last for decades across an entire region of the world, transcend "news for nerds" guidelines.
While events like this do have significance, without a doubt, there is already ample coverage in a very wide variety of general news outlets. Many of the ones that are online allow for discussion, as well.
So there's little need or reason for news sites focusing on rather specific topics like technology, science, mathematics and entrepreneurship to devote page space to rather unrelated political topics. The focus and the depth of coverage is what makes such sites appealing in the first place. Diluting them with news that can be found elsewhere is counterproductive.