Best Headlines in Major News Media
 

Who the hell names a snack 'pirates booty' anyway.
As for fruity booty....nevermind.

Re: Best Headlines in Major News Media
 

There was a story about this snack on our NBC affiliate about 3 weeks ago.

But the funniest part was when John Bolaris, the weathercaster, commented, "I like the booty." I nearly fell out of my chair.

Social Justice
 

Seems as though she should have sued for the price of the snack or maybe she should snack on things like...I don't know....maybe....vegetables....or fruit?

I wonder how much she weighs, that would be good information to have in the story. Might make people much less sympathetic to her "plight". I will grant that the company that produces this "confection" should have appropriately labeled the packaging, but how much did she consume that it caused her: "weight gain ... mental anguish, outrage and indignation." to the tune of $50 million dollars?

This woman is messed up. Drink some SlimFast and get some exercise if your concerned with your weight.

Re: Social Justice
 

That's funny as hell Nic!

It's hardly Major, and it barely qualifies as News Media, but the Hickory Daily Record, published in my home town of Hickory, NC, once ran the headline "Shriners Help Burn Victims". I wish I had saved it!!!

Several years ago I read that the Philadelphia Daily News had sworn off tacky headlines. Not so.. soon after, there was a tragic incident where four people at a local hospital died due to incorrect dosages in their intravenous drug bags. The Daily News chose to run this story with the headline "IV Dead".

I like

"Man hit by freight train dies"

:) Not as funny... but kinda from the "Well, duh" department. :)

We have this shitty local newspaper called The Tribune. It's the kinda paper an intelligent person can't stand to read (or so I'm told) for more than about 30 seconds because there are so many errors in punctuation, grammar, spelling, etc. They're the kind of fuckers that run a story about a local youth soccer team with a headline like "Area youths get a Kick out of Soccer."

So anyhoo, they had this article a couple years ago about some students at a local vocational school who were taking carpentry. As a class project, they were working with a construction company on building a new house. Well, the house burned down during the semester. And this story's headline in the Tribune was... "Class Dismissed".

ZDnet editors: masters of the pun jab at Microsoft
 

New bugs swarm Windows

follows the recent headline "Microsoft's Gopher hole deepens" noted above by Tobiasly.

A sub-heading in today's Philadelphia Inquirer: Cost of caring for the obese is heavy