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Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

from today's Korea Times

VanIslander · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject:

That headline has been done before.

As a journalist I studied headline writing intently, even won an award for my own when I was a newspaper editor (about weeding the grass: "I fought the lawn and the lawn won"). Cheesy. Corny.

All such headlines just make my eyes roll. Rolling Eyes

But they're popular. At least with editors and reporters.

Sublety is lost on most media consumers.

I'd like to read a truly witty headline someday. I'm still waiting...

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

My kind of headlines are the ones that are only funny to warped minds.

Serial Killer Believed Spotted Shocked

(perhaps a rare form of skin disease?)

Woman Hit by Runaway Lorry Critical Evil or Very Mad

(and i think she has every right to be)

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

I'm going to get in with the old Scottish football classic before anyone else does- a small team called Caledonian Thistle once knocked Celtic out of the cup. The Sun responded with the headline-

"Super Cali go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious"

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

kermo · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

I used to work in a university newspaper, and when the latest John Woo movie came out, we had so many ideas for horrible headlines that we just made another column out of the alternates.

I only had one golden moment as a headline writer. I was walking by a few editors scratching their heads over how to title a column about the musical performance "Two Pianos, Four Hands." Any guesses as to what it was? (My own contribution wasn't that hot-- it was just quick, and happened to be what they needed. I bet you guys could come up with some doozies.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

One of the tabloids announced Bee Gee Maurice Gibb's death with a one-word headline. Yeah. "Tragedy!"

Not to be outdone was The Onion's Jerry Garcia obit: "Head Deadhead Dead"

One that graciously never was: It was hoped that Charlton, managing Ireland in the '94 World Cup in the USA, would meet with relatives of Brendan Behan who were in the stands. Why? So they could run "Jack & the Behans Talk"

Beej · Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Location: Eungam Loop

I quite liked this one refering to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal: "ForniGate"

Col.Brandon · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: Seoul

Homosexual Marriages Raise Queries