I just went over to Salon and found a news item, the headline and first paragraph of which are reproduced below…
Obama and daughters snack on frozen custard
By CHRISTINE SIMMONS Associated Press WriterJun 20th, 2009 | ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The first family was in the mood for something sweet — something like vanilla custard, fudge and sprinkles. On a muggy Saturday just before Father's Day, President Barack Obama took Sasha, 8, and Malia, 10, to The Dairy Godmother, a frozen custard shop just outside Washington.
…and then it goes on to tell you that the president had a vanilla custard with hot fudge and toasted almonds in a cup and that Sasha ordered a brownie sundae treat with vanilla custard, hot fudge and chocolate sprinkles. And so on. That's really all this news story is about.
Below it, I found the following…
Salon provides breaking news articles from the Associated Press as a service to its readers, but does not edit the AP articles it publishes.
Nice to know that on a day when car bombs and rioting are killing people in Iraq and Iran, the president taking his daughters for custard can still qualify as breaking news. If they spilled any, CNN would probably cut in with a bulletin.