Bad newspaper headlines
As I love to brag about I was once the head editor of the college newspaper at my university where we had a weekly circulation of around 30,000 papers. It wasn't a huge gig, but as far as I know I didn't make any sort of horrible mistake. If I did it was never pointed out to me and someone likely would have done so if there had been any mistake like the ones I have below.
Despite "batting a thousand" and never letting an error get past me combined with the fact that we were dealing with significantly less helpful technology back then in the 90's, I was never able to get an interesting offer from a real newspaper or magazine. Yet, all the people who allowed these mistakes to get past them presumably did.
While I do realize that it is possible that Grandma Mabel actually was a crack dealer, I think it is far more likely that the wrong image was used in this situation. Sine there is a line between the two front-page sections it indicates to me that these are separate stories and this very pleasant looking old lady is likely not involved in the distribution of crack cocaine. She looks like she would probably laugh it off and maybe get a little bit of notoriety in her bingo circles.
This is one of those "you don't say?" moments that really shouldn't happen. I don't know who gave Hkkmin Maeexger (I can't read the image) a job, or who allows the editor of this paper to stay on staff but I would be willing to bet that a lot of people got a real chuckle out of this headline. It may have been intentional or the work of someone that no longer wishes to be employed at this paper.
Speaking of intentionally bad headlines, Pachel Birdsell (great name by the way!) almost certainly did this on purpose and if it was her intention to get your attention with a great headline I think she did a very good job of that. I don't know when this was published so depending on the time-frame, this may have actually been considered quite risqué.
Of all the funny and sad headlines that I find I think the ones with botched place-holders are probably my favorite just because it really showcases the abject laziness of both the editor and whoever the original author of the article are.
Place-Holders are commonly used while someone is authoring an article because the headline is the most important part of the story and frequently the writer / reporter find inspiration for the actual headline while authoring the body of the story. Obviously they are supposed to come back and change it before it goes to print but there are many instances of them forgetting to do so.
This article I am actually familiar with outside of just the headline. The author did nothing wrong here and since the article is actually about people with private small aircraft no longer being allowed to use private non-registered land as a runway, he or she did nothing wrong.
Think about it? How else would you word the headline of this article which is literally about specific privately owned planes being required to land at official locations?
That'll do it for today. If you get your hands on any great headlines I would love to see them / add them to my collection.