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Lately there seems to have been a spate of headlines that state the completely and utterly obvious. Today there's a story on CNN, and the head you click to get to it is "Valentines Day Isn't Always Happy." - Duh!
And earlier this week was a headline "Alzheimer's Hard on Spouses, too."
What gives? Do we need news articles to tell us the patently obvious? Or should the editors writing the headlines be given a week of to recharge their collective brains?
Dumb headlines have a good history - see below:
http://www.jokes2go.com/lists/list75.html
Stupid Headlines Printed by the Press
1. Something Went Wrong in Plane Crash, Expert Says
2. Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
3. Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
4. Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted
5. Stud Tires Out
6. Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
7. British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands
8. Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms
9. Eye Drops off Shelf
10. Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
11. Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead
12. War Dims Hope for Peace
13. Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim
14. Shot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus to 66
15. Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax
16. Miners Refuse to Work after Death
17. Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
18. Stolen Painting Found by Tree
19. Checkout Counter Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
20. Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One
21. Drunken Drivers Paid $1000
22. If Strike isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While
23. Enfields Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
24. Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge
25. Deer Kill 17,000
26. Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
27. Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge
28. New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
29. Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
30. Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Just one more....
Here are some funny newspaper headlines:
http://www.innocentenglish.com/funny...headlines.html
Grandmother of eight makes hole in one
Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing
Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
House passes gas tax onto senate
Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral plan
Two convicts evade noose, jury hung
William Kelly was fed secretary
Milk drinkers are turning to powder
Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted
Quarter of a million Chinese live on water
Farmer bill dies in house
Jay Leno has a segment on the Tonight Show called Headlines. Some of them are hilarious. I love the ones that he shows that have misspellings which, at times, can be really really funny!
Kee-rist
I used to write headlines for the school newspaper.
A few things that you have to keep in mind to WRITE a good headline.
Space, type and story.
You have to know what the story is about, what the size of the type used in the headline and how much space that allows you.
Here's one from the recent NIU cmpus shootings.
CAMPUS KILLER POLITE.
:rolleyes:
Ha ha some of those are pretty funny. Maybe the writers are bored or just being ironic?
A recent one from our local paper: Man Found Dead in Cemetery.
one found on Yahoo. "Fast food may cause obesity" Thank you random medical study I would of never have realised that on my own.
Yeah, the ones I posted about are just plain obvious- not even funny. It's like making a headline for "snow is cold." Well, yeah - by definition ... and it isn;t like it is a slow news period!
Oh man, maybe it's just me but those really cracked me up! :D