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Bad Headlines #

Date: Friday, May 04, 2007
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Headlines seen over the past few weeks on the start page that Verizon forces on its users, and what they refer to in parentheses:

  • "Daily Life is a Struggle" (life in Baghdad)
  • "All Sides Deny Deals" (Iran/UK sailors hostage situation)
  • "Panel Seeks Documents" (Alberto Gonzales' federal prosecutors firings)
  • "Cheruiyot Wins Marathon" (Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot won the Boston Marathon)
  • "Gates: Clock is ticking" (Defense Secretary Robert Gates on the situation in Iraq)
  • "Donkey Becomes Witness" (Dallas man is sued for noise disturbance caused by a donkey)
  • "Dems Predict a Win" (House Democratic leaders predict that they can win a vote on a bill calling for a withdrawal from Iraq)
  • "Candidates to Debate" (The Republican presidential candidate debate)

Someone forgot to read up on microcontent headlines.

9 Comments

Actually, there's nothing bad with the marathon headline, but the rest are quite stupid.
Posted by: Anonymous May 6, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Good observations. I wonder whether computer generated headlines could be less misleading than these attempts?
Posted by: Daniel J. Neeley June 14, 2007 at 11:40 AM
interesting headlines, without context means nothing
Posted by: Anonymous June 14, 2007 at 3:12 PM
Those reflect such clear political opinion from a corporation.
Posted by: Todd Vodka June 15, 2007 at 2:12 AM
It's very interesting titles!!! :)
Posted by: Anonymous June 15, 2007 at 5:23 AM
I very much enjoyed reading this. Very interesting and informative. In response to Dan, I very much doubt that computer generated headlines will ever take off - headlines are very important and do not take much time to write - meaning they will be manually done long into the future. http://disagreementparadox.blogspot.com/
Posted by: R.Evans June 15, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Headlines can exagerate and be misleading. Still, your chiices are interesting and your site is refreshing.
Posted by: Anonymous June 18, 2007 at 12:01 AM
Mihai, wanna say that design of your blog is so great. And yes these headlines are quite misleading.
Posted by: Sarah King June 18, 2007 at 1:34 AM
"Many writers are still to be born and language is isn't conceived" Bad headlines maybe the best headlines for that purpose and moment.Journalism and Politics are related."Nothing ever goes straight".Some still speak in parables and in their own thoughts and minds."Creativity is a good tool"
Posted by: Online marketing consultant June 21, 2007 at 7:30 PM

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