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Winterspeak marvels at an Onionesque combination of headlines on the New York Times: “North Korea Explodes Nuclear Weapon, Colorful Bird Discovered in Columbia”. It’s quite likely that the actual source of the bird story is the noble AlertNet, home of the unironic “Choose a crisis” menu.

It may also be responsible for the use of cute area numeraires like “an area the size of Wales” noted by Daniel Davies.

Of course it could just be Reuters taken neat or even Newsweek disease but AlertNet is a fine way to make up your own mind on what should be news.