The non-poker press is catching on to online gambling issues [Fort Worth Star-Telegram] — still learning what they really are about, and feeling out whether or not they have enough relevance and traction to merit follow-up stories throughout the upcoming political season.

And no matter how much our ilk doesn’t think it should be this way — we can hardly be surprised when stories like the one above get packaged with a teens-on-heroin variety of poker/gambling story like the one here. It’s inevitable … they’re going for that whole concept of “balance” that we in the poker media are generally unfamiliar with.