Give That Desker A Raise

Call it the DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN award.

 

i love it when noobs have board-changing ideas. i look forward to it, in fact.

 

Come on Breasticles, not all their ideas are bad.

 

You see things; and you say, "Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

But pardon me anyway. Maybe I'll post tittie pix instead.

 

Yes, but if you write just sports headlines, there's already an inherent bias against you because those go toward news and features headline writers.

 

Time to get back on the bus.

[obscure RFK `68 reference.]

 

And they work just as hard!!

Fabulous headline btw.

 

Big money and chicks aren't enough? Everyone knows deskers are the rock stars of a newspaper.

 

i'm so sorry i missed your brilliance. i so see the light now.

what were you referring to, again?

 

My nominee for headline of the weekend was on a standalone photo in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The headline was "A Feel For The Moment" and the picture was of a race fan at Las Vegas Motor Speedway reaching his right hand over his wife's back and fondling her right breast.

The cutline was "Kyle Stocking grabs his wife, Francie, on Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway during NASCAR Weekend events."

You can't make stuff like that up.

 

1) That headline is months old.

2) It's what AP moved. You can see it all over the web. I saw it this summer at the NYT's Web site.

 

That hed would never sneak through at our shop. Our wire editor would say it's a cheap pun on a trendy reference and replace it with something snappy like, "China holds competition," or maybe, "Competition held in China."