All The News That’s Fit To Self-Immolate


• Grocers hate it when their loss leaders have no followers. [NYT] “Sale Shoppers Annoy Grocers as They Save”
• Burning smell noticed by large newspaper. [NYT] “Dell’s Exploding Computer and Other Image Problems”
• People noticing distinctive fish smell from Lay’s coffin are noticed by large newspaper. [NYT] “A Sense of Something Rotten in Aspen”
• 100 years after its first publication, does The Jungle suffer from misleading packagaing? Perhaps a lack of oxygen to make it look more Red? [Slate] “Welcome to The Jungle
• It’s like that children’s game, would you rather have your hip disintegrate, or your jaw? [CT] “Lawyers gear up to attack Fosamax”

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