25 Of The Most Obvious Headlines Ever
Take it from us: crafting a succinct headline to summarize a news story isn't easy. Drawing readers' attention to a story, whether interesting or bana...
Take it from us: crafting a succinct headline to summarize a news story isn't easy. Drawing readers' attention to a story, whether interesting or bana...
Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.27.2011
Bold, catchy and to-the-point, the large text above a news story plays a vital role in conveying information to readers. But details can get lost in t...
The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 11.08.2011
Someone at The Washington Post's Express Magazine World section was probably blushing yesterday, because a headline intended to innocently convey the ...
The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 10.19.2011
Headline writers get giddy at the prospect of a perfect pun. Just look at any front page (in this case The New York Post is probably best) and you'll ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.04.2011
It really doesn't get much better than a good, old fashioned headline FAIL. Whether they contain bad puns, unintentionally sexual phrasing or turn ...
Posted 09.06.2011
With most of the comedy world on hiatus this week, finding new and hilarious things on the web to post for our dear readers has been kind of rough. Ti...
Posted 09.05.2011
If you spend even five minutes on any news website today you're bound to find a headline that reads like a joke. Sometimes the story writes its own pu...
Posted 05.25.2011
Let's face it: police blotters can be one of the most entertaining parts of a newspaper, when they're funny. Who doesn't love stories of crime gone wr...
Posted 05.25.2011
Writing headlines can be tricky (or so we've heard). Of course you want to get the story across clearly, but you also want to entertain or engage your...
Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011
The news can't always be on point 100% of the time, but we have to say we expect better than these ridiculously obvious headlines. Sure, there are no ...
Posted 05.25.2011
And the amazing headlines keep rolling in. And like last time, the best part is that it's totally real - not just an oversight by the writer. The webs...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Newspapers (and even some news websites) just keep providing us with gold. Last week, we showed the you creepiest classified ads, and now we've collec...
Posted 05.25.2011
There's nothing better than headlines accidentally suggesting oral sex. Unless this was no accident and this was a strict order to be taken seriously....
Posted 05.25.2011
A Birmingham woman who changed her name to Jesus Christ turned up for jury duty and was unsurprisingly crazy. This series of events lead to the best C...
Posted 05.25.2011
If there was one headline that the editors of this paper probably should've proofread, our money's on this one. But perhaps this is not a screw up, bu...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.24.2012