VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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 Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent.  THAT is funny.
BTW, Associated Press wrote that headline, not the Korean writer. At least that's how they used to work in 90% of cases.
As a newspaper's head editor I won a journalism award for Best Headline Writing in a 22-paper chain one year and the one they singled out to profile with the announcement wasn't even one of my best, but must've tickled the judges' fancy. For an advice column on how to weed grass in one's yard: I fought the lawn and the lawn won
Informative, eye-catching and funny are the best headlines.
Ideally "Skywalker crosses Han solo" would have been bolded with the cutline of a photo of a contestant. The pluralized 'skywalkers' and Korea reference may be necessary for a main head but it interfers with the aesthetics. Still, a wonderful effort. |
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