So many “dead cat” days in the news industry.
The old saying was “When there is no news you throw a dead cat in front of a politician and report his reaction.”
Conversely; the reporterette...
"But, on the other hand, Uncle Abner said that the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful."source: TOM SAWYER ABROAD by MARK TWAIN [Samuel Clemens, 1894],