Breaking News, North Dakota Style
Seen in the “breaking news” section of the Grand Forks Herald website:

But you can’t say that the folks at the Herald don’t know their readership:

There’s a war in Iraq. There was just a monumental political shift in Congress. But the most read story on North Dakota’s second largest newspaper’s website?
Car hits cow.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
You can read the whole story (all two paragraphs of it) here. I really shouldn’t be making fun, though. There are some advantages to living in a place where a car hitting a cow is major news. That headline could read “ten people murdered in Fargo” or “crime rate at all-time high.” The fact that it’s “car hits cow” is… comforting in a strange sort of way.













