Adventures in headline writing, or why Lovie Smith made Coakley lose

Or maybe Jerry Angelo is at fault. Anyway, another reminder to be precise with headlines:

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/headline-white-house-bears-part-blame-senate-loss/

A story filed Wednesday afternoon by Reuters seemed to suggest the White House had blamed the Chicago Bears football team for losing Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts.

The headline, which ran above a Reuters story on the New York Times' website, was titled, "White House Says Bears Part Of Blame For Senate Loss."

It turned out the story meant to say that the White House said it bore some of the responsibility for losing the Massachusetts Senate seat. It didn't mean to say that Obama's hometown team was to blame for a congressional race roughly a thousand miles away.

 

When in fact it was actual bears that caused the result.

 

So, Brown vs. Ditka...who would win?

 

Is this the mini-Ditka or the full-grown one?

 

So bears are Republican soul-less killing machines?

 

Will they have clothes on?

 

I told ya the Cover 2 NEVER works!

 

o/`The Bears still suck, the Bears still suck ...

 

this is sorta like the headline that is on the ESPN main page right now: "Celtics' Davis curses heckler"

had to click on the story to find out it was about Big Baby yelling a curse word, not Big Baby making a voo doo doll...

 

Given the way Coakley ran her campaign, this is appropriate.

 

"We're here, we're queer, we don't want any more bears!"




This reminds me of one of those headlines about a death: "[Michael Jackson] dies Thursday" ... like he's about to be executed or something.