Huh

You spend a couple of hours innocently concentrating on your work and boom - everyone beats you to the scoop that's not a scoop.

A brief analysis of first media coverage of the Venice announcement on Stuff, via the Dominion Post, shows us that

(a) dollar values are important: of the 288 words in the story 6 are monetary figures -

• spend $650,000
• $150,000 more
• raise another $400,000
• $80,000 report
• at least $125,000
• prestigious $50,000
  

and (b), you can never get enough out of flogging a dead donkey.