Haikus of Main Street

What they really want is the holy trinity, I call it, of local news, which is high school sports, obituaries and the police blotter. The police blotter, of course, is where we all turn first to see what's really going on in town, and you have to sort of read between the lines. They're like the haikus of Main Street, USA.

WERTHEIMER: Maybe you should give us an example of a haiku.

MULLER: Man calls to report wife went missing 15 months ago.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

MULLER: Or man calls for help getting overweight dog up the basement stairs.

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/31/138867782/emus-loose-in-egnar-explores-small-town-papers