Darwin’s Northern Territory News often displays screaming headlines about
crocodiles, which are an ever-present danger in its vast circulation
area.
One day recently (November 30, 2012) it published a front-page story
captioned FROG STRUCK BY LIGHTNING ... and a few humans were hit too. It also
published a poster showing a picture of a dead frog.
Many readers thought this hilarious. Dan Thorne, in the UK online news
magazine TNT, wrote “Stop the press! Frog hit by lightning makes the front page
in Aussie newspaper NT News.
Incidentally, the NT News is a small dinghy in Rupert Murdoch’s global
fleet of newspapers.
Let's take a moment to thank the hapless frog for his service to the media industry and giving us a darned good laugh. NT News, we salute you.
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