News of the Tautological

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Are You Auditioning for ‘America’s Got Talent’ in Chicago This Weekend?”–headline, Times (Munster, Ind.), Nov. 5

News of the Tautological
“Unopposed Candidates See No Strong Challengers”–headline, Mount Airy (N.C.) News, Nov. 3

News You Can Use
“How to Alienate Voters and Lose a Statewide Election”–headline, WMAQ-TV website (Chicago), Nov. 4

Bottom Stories of the Day
“United Nations Names Australia as the Second Best Place in the World to Live”–headline, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov. 5

Editorial Bored
See if you can guess to what New York Times reporter Jesse McKinley is referring in the following passage:

The board, whose political leanings can sometimes fall somewhere between Democrat and Dadaist . . .

Wrong! It’s the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, not the New York Times editorial board. 

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