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04-28-2009, 03:06 AM | #1 |
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-- of news headlines that should have been taken out back and shot, except then they'd impoverish talk radio or something.
"British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands" Oh, that's what those were. **** Bad misquotes, misreadable headlines, snappy comments all encouraged.
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04-28-2009, 10:01 AM | #2 |
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04-28-2009, 10:50 AM | #3 |
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A favorite from years ago in my hometown newspaper... "Shriners Help Burn Victims"
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04-28-2009, 11:07 AM | #4 |
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04-28-2009, 06:03 PM | #5 |
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"Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" The Sun
"Up Yours Delors" (with the two fingered Victory salute atop a Union Jack) The Sun I think the worst headlines i've ever seen and the ones that showed us (Brits) at our absolute worst were the headlines during the Falklands War. "Gotcha" for the sinking of the Belgrano, and the ever cringe-worthy "Stick it up your Junta" Again, both from The Sun (a newspaper that Russell Brand characterises as a lifelong friend...but the kind of friend you hate; the racist nasty bigotted friend who pours bile in your ear.) |
04-29-2009, 12:52 AM | #6 |
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04-29-2009, 01:01 AM | #7 |
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04-29-2009, 09:31 AM | #8 |
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This was from the Philadelphia Daily News, some years ago, regarding a story that four patients at a hospital had died from incorrect dosages in their intravenous fluid bags.
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04-29-2009, 12:23 PM | #9 |
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As a side note
I want to comment on the Oregonians layout...choices...on an almost daily basis.
It's not that their headlines are ridiculous or lame (though they often are) it's that they have this "picture of the day" thing, that lands smack in the middle of the front page (sometimes just the front page of their living section) that has no relationship to the blazing headline Illustrative but not actual example: "Swine Flu Epidemic!" coupled with a pic of children playing or the Blazers. And then a tiny caption to explain pic of the day. |
04-29-2009, 03:20 PM | #10 |
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That's brilliant. I mean...it's wrong, just plain wrong...but it's still brilliant
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04-30-2009, 10:36 AM | #11 |
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04-30-2009, 12:55 PM | #12 |
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Front of the Bucks Herald this week was the headline, "Prison Officer Gives Birth to Inmate's Love Child"
Why is that funny? It's not - it's a hideously smug use of a completely outdated phrase. I bet about 30% of the circulation have a so-called Love Child in their family these days. I was tempted to write them a letter, but in the end I decided - nah, not worth it. I have a backlog of letters to write to the Express and the Mail asking them why they hate Great Britain anyway.
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