Announcing the Tinnies, a new award to recognize the lede most richly reflective of American media gaucherie. Here's this week's winner, filed as more than 100 people died from Europe's worst flood in a century:
As Floods Ebb in Prague, Threat Rolls Into Germany
By PETER S. GREEN with OTTO POHL
PRAGUE, Aug. 14 — Floods that have caused billions of dollars of damage across Central Europe and have shut down the Czech Republic's biggest tourist attractions also did something almost unheard of today — they stopped the production of the Czechs' two most famous beers, Pilsner and the original Budweiser. (New York Times)
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Severe Heat Wave Afflicts More Than Tempers
PARK AVENUE, NY, Aug. 17 - As dozens of senior citizens, homeless people and dogs perished in the unprecedented heat baking the Northeast this week, Boris Pansusz tried to keep his cool. The head ice sculptier at the Waldorf-Astoria stoically watched as his 48-inch-tall replica of the Sept. 11 catastrophe melted away at the famed establishment's outdoor Oyster Bar.
"Tant pis," said Pansusz, with a small but defiant toss of his impeccably coiffed head. "Next time I make abstract expressionist image of Niagara Falls - truly a piece de resistance!"
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