Monday, June 23, 2008
New Addition to Headline Collection
As part of my lifetime of teaching copy editing, which necessarily includes headline writing, I have accumulated a wonderful collection of miswritten, misguided, and nonsequiturian headlines, most of them written by real professional headline writers and published in actual professional publications and almost always hilariously outlandish.
Today's addition from Fox Sports on MSN.com:
"How drivers can race a day after death in a fiery crash"
Man, those are great doctors working on those guys! Is one of them named Frankenstein?
(This is one of those headlines that I would classify as "Medical Miracles" headlines -- such as "Death In the ring: Boxers are not same afterward" and "Smokers are productive, but death cuts efficiency"! -- more likely to show up in Weekly World News than a professional publication or Web site, I'd think.)
Today's addition from Fox Sports on MSN.com:
"How drivers can race a day after death in a fiery crash"
Man, those are great doctors working on those guys! Is one of them named Frankenstein?
(This is one of those headlines that I would classify as "Medical Miracles" headlines -- such as "Death In the ring: Boxers are not same afterward" and "Smokers are productive, but death cuts efficiency"! -- more likely to show up in Weekly World News than a professional publication or Web site, I'd think.)
