CLUELESS: Jim Romenesko’s MediaNews points to an amusing story. A 4-year-old found what a newspaper reported to be a “conjoined toad”, with two heads, 8 legs, etc.

Er, except that it turns out it was really two toads gettin’ it on rather than an “exotic two-headed mutant.” Well, duh. I mean look at the picture! “It’s just very obvious,” says a biologist quoted in the correction story. Er, yes, it is.

This might fool a 4-year-old, but it shouldn’t fool a newspaper. Perhaps (as with the anti-gun prejudice mentioned just below) we should take this as evidence that modern journalists are leading lives that are a bit too, um, sheltered.