Great moments in local newspaperdom

There has been a biblical amount of earthquakes and tsunamis and what-have-yous in the general vicinity of Australia's north lately. This has led to a discussion on Crikey about the way these things have been covered in the Australian media, particularly by some of the smaller regional papers. It's often 'ONE AUSTRALIAN KILLED and a few thousand other people too'.

So someone wrote in saying that small regional papers are like that the world over, and have always been like that, offering a pair of sterling examples from two Scottish newspapers on April 16, 1912. You'll know what happened two days earlier, of course (hint: it involved an iceberg).

From the Aberdeen Press & Journal: Local man lost at sea
From the Dundee Evening Telegraph: Dundee man dies in shipping accident

I can't tell you how happy those two headlines make me.

What else? Oh, just to keep everyone up to date, the new combination of Vegemite and cream cheese is no longer called iSnack 2.0. Kraft (the makers of this abomination) abandoned the name after four days (seriously, the nation stopped so we could all have a grizzle about it) and has just announced that the new spread will be renamed Cheesybite. Which still doesn't inspire me to try it, but at least it doesn't make me sigh.

Finally, have a look at this advertisement for Aunt Betty's unnaturally sweet and chemically Butterscotch & Pecan Dessert:

( Aunt Betty )

Is it just me, or does the third panel show Dave about to vomit rather than almost faint?