Headline Of The Year Nominee

June 9th, 2012

Sometimes, the interwebs really do make the world a better place...

Via Yahoo:

"A highway truck accident never sounded so delicious. A semitrailer hauling Hungry Jack pancake syrup collided with a highway median at the Buttermilk Pike overpass in northern Kentucky, causing the truckload of syrup to spill all over the highway.

"Every lane of southbound I-75 was covered in pancake syrup," Fort Mitchell Police Officer Mark Spanyer told the Kentucky Enquirer. "It was a royal pain in the butt."

H/T to Charles for this one.

The Wonders Of Editorial Headline Writing

Oct 14th, 2011

There are dozens of ways news outlets could have framed the victory of the Occupy Wall Street protesters this morning. Headline writing is, after all, really an art form. The power of a brief phrase in bold type to color a reader's perceptions is not to be underestimated. Were it up to me, I would have gone with something like "Bloomberg Blinks" or "Confrontation Averted in New York." Those are just for starters. However, more than one major outlet opted for variations of "Clean Up Cancelled." The thing is, they mostly paired these headlines with images of the park being cleaned up. Just an observation.

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Best Media Matters Headline EVER

July 29th, 2011

In case you missed the exchange between Bill Nye and Fox Drone Jon Scott that that inspired the following headline, the video is below the screencap. Watch Nye's face in the clip. We can all add this to the growing file of "things we can't make up."

Yup. That actually happened.

It's Really Not The Onion

June 10th, 2011

HT to Andrew Sullivan for this... Headlines that seem like they simply have to be Onion headlines now have their own tumblr. Here's a good one.

Just in case you think they're pulling your leg, they all have active links. Here is the original from the San Francisco Chronicle.