By PJK
... always a shame to hear about the senseless destruction of artwork.
Seriously, why can't the media just use normal sentences like rest of us? What's wrong with saying "artworks auctioned"? Why the convoluted clichés all the time?
Anyone else got any examples of dumb headlines they'd like to share?
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As a journalist I would say we use the "convoluted clichés" for the purpose of grabbing your attention. After all...auctions happen all the time; would you have read, or even looked a little harder at, the article if it had said simply "art auctioned," rather than "artworks go under the hammer?"
But yes, we do come up with some rather pitiful, and unfortunately job-losing dumb or erroneous headlines on too many an occasion.
"Babies Are What The Mother Eats"
"Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead."
"Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Experts Say" (NO! Really??)
See http://www.fedtrek.com/Dumb_Headlines.html for more laughs
Lada you are now my #1 favourite commenter on this blog! Srsly.
You're a journalist?! Wow! What do you write?? I am intrigued.
http://opinionjournal.com/best
"Best of the Web" also posts stupid headlines daily. (Scroll down past the political stuff)
No, I'm not technically a journalist, but I do some freelancing work in it, and I am a student of it. But yes, I do love to write.
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