Fox finds werewolf

We all know Fox News, of course. The troglodyte channel, the world as seen by angry old white men (and a few even angrier, tight-lipped young white women). The sort who "Lexington," in this week's Economist magazine, says belong to the "party of 'white-trash pride,'" and who "are consumed with elemental fury about everything from immigration to liberal do-gooders."

But I digress.

Whatever else you may say about Fox, it's a business and a successful business at that. It knows its clientele, and it knows their needs and interests. As a result, a perusal of its website reveals news items that never see the light of day on grayer, more boring media such as CNN and ABC.

For example: today's photo article about Pruthviraj Patil, the 11-year-old wolf boy in India. What? You knew nothing of this phenomenon? Well, I didn't either, but now I do. It seems the lad is covered with fur from head to toe, palms of his hands and feet only excepted. According to the story, he suffers from hypertrichosis, a "rare genetic disorder," more felicitously known as "werewolf syndrome."

The story was newsworthy, apparently, because of an anticipated "cure": Columbia University physicians are experimenting with testosterone injections. Too early for news of any progress, but not too early for a nice head shot of the young werewolf. Thanks, Fox News.

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