They're only a step away from syndicating Onion articles on the front page

The inability of The Sun to tell when people are having a laugh strikes again this morning, as they straight-facedly report that Christian O'Connell is going to be the new Twice-Nightly Whiteley:

RADIO star Christian O’Connell could be the next Countdown host, it emerged yesterday. The 34-year-old said Channel 4 has asked him to audition to take over from Des Lynam.

He told Virgin breakfast show listeners: “I’ve always been a fan and doing a breakfast show means I’m free in the afternoon.”

Let's not detain ourselves with the use of "it emerged yesterday" as if there's a similarity between between, say, the slow oozing of the details of the Mark Foley sex scandal and someone saying something on the radio and just stare, slack jawed. How many editors will this have passed through before they published it? And none of them stopped for a moment and thought "the man who replaced Chris Moyles on his Channel Five show for late-night drinkers being in the running to present a show aimed mostly at the stairlift and Sanatogen market - how likely is that?"

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