Popular Elsewhere
14:40 UK time, Thursday, 24 November 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
Bulldogs are in trouble as a breed. They are too short and stocky to mate without help and need assistance to give birth because their heads are so big. But a popular New York Times article says this is down to humans breeding them to "play up the cute effect". Their proof is a mock up of . It's much slimmer and doesn't have that telltale flat face or huge eyes.
It's 24 November. Not even December. Yet Time readers are flocking to Christmas stories. Their second most popular Christmas story picks out the magazine's 10 . Many come from the UK, but the US and Germany are well represented too. Even the Philippines makes an appearance in the gallery. In one street in Baltimore every resident out of 700 blocks puts up lights, locally known as "The Miracle on 34th Street."
NPR listeners are gearing up for . Shelley Moore Capito plays agony aunt to listeners' family disputes. As a Republican congresswoman with Democrats in her family her key is to avoid talking about politics at all. But her top thanksgiving suggestion for when the racist uncle started droning on is to attempt to change the subject by bringing more food into the room.
Rarely do you see an article so neatly crafted to appeal to its target audience than this one from the Guardian. In their it is assumed that their readership will not know of almost anyone. Most are in bands but only one they take for granted that their readership will know is Jarvis Cocker.
