Peter Williams: Are media April Fool’s jokes a good idea anymore?

The middle of the front page of my local paper, the venerable Otago Daily Times, today (April 1st) carried a story headlined “Worms invade inpatient building site, threaten to upend project.”

This gist of the report was that a ngaokeoke or New Zealand velvet worm, which apparently was named the country’s top invertebrate this year (!) was eating into plants near the piles for the planned new Dunedin Hospital Inpatient building.