EDIT: We should have added that, in total, the coverage of the Northern Rock story was balanced out in the business section.

Newspapers are normally accused of hyperbole, but the Sunday Tribune could be accused of underplaying  a story when reporting yesterday that there was little panic among Irish customers of the troubled UK bank Northern Rock.

The Tribune’s front page story on the bank is stark contrast to other reports, including online and TV news reports which stated "Thousands of Northern Rock customers in Britain and Ireland queued at branches" and "Up to 300 people are queuing in front of Northern Rock’s headquarters in Dublin today" – including images of a large line of people outside the internet bank’s Dublin branch.

The only possibly reason is that  somebody at the Sunday Tribune was reading or watching Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, as Wikipedia explains…

In the novel, it is said that despite its many glaring (and occasionally fatal) inaccuracies, the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy itself has outsold the Encyclopedia Galactica because it’s slightly cheaper, and because it has the words "Don’t Panic" on the cover.