Absurd headlines

13 years ago

My favorite, concerning the recent NYC Mayor race:

"Clinton Wants Weiner Out"

(some things never change)

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Joe Mobley 13 years ago

Is that Hillary talking to Bill?

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Originally Posted by Kurt

My favorite, concerning the recent NYC Mayor race:

"Clinton Wants Weiner Out"

(some things never change)
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DubDubDubDot

13 years ago

There is one more that definitely should have been on the list:

Zombie Caterpillars Rain Death From Treetops

Zombie Caterpillars Rain Death From Treetops

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seasoned

13 years ago

I WISH I could give details! Apparently, the onion rcently created an ABSURD headline and article, with a certain main character. Change the main characters name to the CURRENT player, and IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED! It is SAD!

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Claude Whitacre

13 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

I WISH I could give details! Apparently, the onion rcently created an ABSURD headline and article, with a certain main character. Change the main characters name to the CURRENT player, and IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED! It is SAD!

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I completely understand this post.

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Joe Mobley 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I completely understand this post.

Claude, I think you fib from time to time. :rolleyes:

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garyv

13 years ago

Unlike in years past, the news outlets now have access to instant analytics, and they're seeing what we internet marketers are seeing, and that is that the more absurd the headline is the higher the traffic. So now they're trying to take an ordinary story and put an outstanding twist on it to give it an attention grabbing headline.

For instance, what might be an ordinary trip to KFC for the president could turn into a headline like: "President Seen Grabbing Colonels Breasts".

I don't see the trend turning around any time soon, unless people just start getting overloaded with these trumped up headlines.

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seasoned

13 years ago

Originally Posted by garyv

Unlike in years past, the news outlets now have access to instant analytics, and they're seeing what we internet marketers are seeing, and that is that the more absurd the headline is the higher the traffic. So now they're trying to take an ordinary story and put an outstanding twist on it to give it an attention grabbing headline.

GIVE ME A BREAK! You ******REALLY****** think that after THOUSANDS of years, they didn't know this!?!?!? THAT IS BULL!!!!! When I was a kid, there was a FAMOUS saying! HECK, it may date back over 100 years or more! Dog bites man is NO story. Man bites dog IS a story! I am paraphrasing, but you get the idea. HECK, I LOVE LuCY covered this a lot.

So WHY are things getting so ABSURD? TWO REASONS!!!!!!!!

1. People are going nuts, and crazy things are happening!
2. BECAUSE of #1, people are EXHAUSTED by the crazy headlines, and companies are showing even CRAZIER ones!

Steve

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garyv

13 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

GIVE ME A BREAK! You ******REALLY****** think that after THOUSANDS of years, they didn't know this!?!?!? THAT IS BULL!!!!! When I was a kid, there was a FAMOUS saying! HECK, it may date back over 100 years or more! Dog bites man is NO story. Man bites dog IS a story! I am paraphrasing, but you get the idea. HECK, I LOVE LuCY covered this a lot.

So WHY are things getting so ABSURD? TWO REASONS!!!!!!!!

1. People are going nuts, and crazy things are happening!
2. BECAUSE of #1, people are EXHAUSTED by the crazy headlines, and companies are showing even CRAZIER ones!

Steve

Of course people know this - I never said they didn't - but they've never had a tangible way to track it in real time like they do now.

And things are not much crazier, there's just more people on the planet, and a lot more coverage of everything we do thanks to smart-phones w/ cameras and the internet. Combine that w/ a 24 hour news cycle, and hundreds if not thousands of news sources competing for headlines, and you have the recipe for ever increasingly absurd headlines.

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seasoned

13 years ago

Originally Posted by garyv

And things are not much crazier, there's just more people on the planet, and a lot more coverage of everything we do thanks to smart-phones w/ cameras and the internet. Combine that w/ a 24 hour news cycle, and hundreds if not thousands of news sources competing for headlines, and you have the recipe for ever increasingly absurd headlines.

It started getting crazier BEFORE phones with cameras and the opening of the internet.

Steve

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Horny Devil

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

GIVE ME A BREAK! You ******REALLY****** think that after THOUSANDS of years, they didn't know this!?!?!? THAT IS BULL!!!!! When I was a kid, there was a FAMOUS saying! HECK, it may date back over 100 years or more! Dog bites man is NO story. Man bites dog IS a story! I am paraphrasing, but you get the idea. HECK, I LOVE LuCY covered this a lot.

So WHY are things getting so ABSURD? TWO REASONS!!!!!!!!

1. People are going nuts, and crazy things are happening!
2. BECAUSE of #1, people are EXHAUSTED by the crazy headlines, and companies are showing even CRAZIER ones!

Steve

I don't know about headlines, I think people are getting crazier.

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Don Schenk

13 years ago

It looks like huffingtonpost

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dave147

13 years ago

Here's another 25...

25 Stupid Newspaper Headlines

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David Maschke

13 years ago

The first headline is absolutely terrible. Who writes these crap headlines anyway?

"The body of Christ served on the carcass of a cow?"

Ya, that's enough to infuriate me and get my blood boiling. Now I'm pissed.

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seasoned

13 years ago

Originally Posted by David Maschke

The first headline is absolutely terrible. Who writes these crap headlines anyway?

"The body of Christ served on the carcass of a cow?"

Ya, that's enough to infuriate me and get my blood boiling. Now I'm pissed.

YEAH, a catholic might read it that way, but this is due to the apparent desire by some to insult, or figuring that anything is fair game, and they use whatever is around. etc... Like the cross in urine, etc....

Ar you sure YOU don't write the headlines? YOUR'S is a more sensational headline than that first one and COULD conceivbly be said to mean the same thing!

Steve

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David Maschke

13 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

YEAH, a catholic might read it that way, but this is due to the apparent desire by some to insult, or figuring that anything is fair game, and they use whatever is around. etc... Like the cross in urine, etc....

Ar you sure YOU don't write the headlines? YOUR'S is a more sensational headline than that first one and COULD conceivbly be said to mean the same thing!

Steve

Offensive and sensationalism isn't hard to do, is it?

If you asked me to come up with a headline for just the burger, that would take time and a lot of thought.

Ask me to come up with one for the wafer (not in a religious text), and it's doubtful I could even come up with a bad one.

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jacktackett

13 years ago

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As for history, I've read that yellow journalism helped start the Spanish-American war , then again when has the news media NOT contributed to both the start and stoping of altercations?
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