Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate

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

So Much for the War on Drugs
“Buffalo County Hires North Platte Man as New Weed Superintendent”–headline, Kearney (Neb.) Hub, Feb. 8

It’s Always in the Last Place You Look
“Edwardsville Woman Finds a Book in Her Own Neighborhood”–headline, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 9

Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate
The following correction appeared Sunday in the New York Times:

An article on Jan. 16 about drilling for oil off the coast of Angola erroneously reported a story about cows falling from planes, as an example of risks in any engineering endeavor. No cows, smuggled or otherwise, ever fell from a plane into a Japanese fishing rig. The story is an urban legend, and versions of it have been reported in Scotland, Germany, Russia and other locations.

That reminds us of a joke: What goes “Moooooooooo–SPLAT!”?

As it turns out, nothing.

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