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

How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
“Local Doctor, Frank R. Braden Jr., Was Still Practicing at Age 100”–headline, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 17

That Would Make It a Leopard
“Mountain Lion Spotted in La Crescenta Neighborhood”–headline, KTLA-TV website (Los Angeles), April 17

News of the Tautological
“Spectacular Solar Flare Erupts From the Sun”–headline, Space.com, April 16

Chelsea’s Peers
BuzzFeed.com reports that things aren’t going well for “NBC’s latest high profile hire,” Chelsea Clinton:

To get the TV gig, Chelsea’s team played off rival networks, holding a series of meetings in New York last fall with all the major television news outlets, including ABC, CBS, and CNN. “Her agent calls, asks if you want to meet with Chelsea Clinton, you take the meeting,” one network executive tells BuzzFeed.

But she didn’t blow anyone away with her presence during the interview process, according to network executives who interviewed her. “Horrible,” says another high ranking TV executive who met with Chelsea. “There were ground rules, what she could and couldn’t report, only good news, no politics, ” says the executive, who felt Chelsea would be a dud and passed. . . .

Not to mention how all the kids in NBC reacted. “The message was, ‘You didn’t waste your journalism degree,'” says one NBC news staffer. “There’s resentment.” The critical reception of her debut on Rock Center wasn’t great, either: the Washington Post described her as “one of the most boring people of her era.” And, NBC sources say, for her debut, they pre-taped her intro interview with Brian Williams at least twice (they ended up using the first taping,) an unusual move for what’s presented as a spontaneous interview.

Chelsea just renewed her original three-month contract, but there isn’t much to show for it.

OK, we’re just confused. Does anyone have any idea why NBC might have hired her?

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