William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

At the end of a slow news week, it’s obvious that news services will struggle to find stories to highlight.

Luckily, Fox News has no such worry. The lead story:

School Bus Terror Alert

‘Extremists could be driving your kids to school’

The first two paragraphs of the AP story detail the threat your children are under:

Members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said “parents and children have nothing to fear.”

Asked about the alert notice, the FBI’s Rich Kolko said “there are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern,” although law enforcement agencies around the country were asked to watch out for kids’ safety.

Fox News managed to fill out it’s front page with two other vital stories:

Slow news days. They are a bitch, aren’t they?

Ignore the man behind the curtain, just be afraid. And to imagine, some people think Fox News is a GOP mouthpiece.

–WKW

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