People Who Write Headlines That Should Be Slapped (Part 2)
Sure, the Cheney-shot-a-78-year-old-man-in-the-face story is like so last week, but I loves me some headline malaprops and this story just keeps on giving.
For example, Tim noticed that Forbes and the AP teamed up for this beauty:
Sorta makes the Vice President seem like M. Emmet Walsh in The Jerk, doesn’t it?
My friend bestman loves these almost as much as I do. When I sent him the previous headline, he responded by offering another gem....
In last week’s Cheney-shot-a-78-year-old-man-in-the-face coverage, MSNBC ran a subheadline that probably deserves a story of its own:
I think this is what those in the news biz call “burying the lede.”
2 Ripples from “People Who Write Headlines That Should Be Slapped (Part 2)”
bestman says:
February 22, 2006 at 9:02 pm
I have to credit a co-worker on this one...she had it posted on the outside of her cube, with the headline circled in blue highlighter and a note slamming the msnbc.com editors. We’re geeks, we in the editing bidness...big, fat, geeky geeks who are not at all immune to schadenfreude.
Brandon says:
February 23, 2006 at 10:02 am
These are hilarious.
Though, they’re not quite as hilarious as the Dutch rollerblades.
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