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more about #headlines more comments → contradicto: 2012's Four Horsemen Win Box Office Derby #2012 more » resipsaloquacious: On the bright side, Rio (and Brazil in general) would likely have a significant amount of child-bearing age females who survive the flood and help to ... more » belltolls: They should have said, "It blowed up reaaalll good." #2012 more » hamburgerhotdog: The only good thing about 2012 was watching LA get annihilated. That was highly satisfying. The rest...shrug. #2012 more » badasscat: My favorite part of all this is assholes like Peter King saying we shouldn't be trying these people in New York because it makes New York a terrorist ... more » Mediahohoho: This should have happened years ago. Our criminal justice system is one of the many things that sets us apart from the world's many authoritarian, ant... more » Buttafooco: I wonder if that headline is referring to all Muslims..........or just the terrorist ones who were responsible for the 9-11 tragedy? more » Foster Kamer: I greatly enjoyed this. From Tumblr's TopherChris: topherchris.tumblr.com. #headlines more » bess marvin, girl detective: it's no headless body in a topless bar, but i'll take it #headlines more » marin79: I can't believe I'm saying this, but part of me was waiting for the NYPost response. It was always going to be ridiculous, dramatic & insane. Why do... more » NigelAstydameia: Lest we forget the uproar over "The Simpsons" Brazil episode, where Homer gets kidnapped and little orphan Ronaldo is attacked by monkeys ("I am like ... more » Thomas Paladino: Brazil, as a nation, is incomparably conspiratorial and petulant when it comes to the most mild criticism or even simple observation of their national... more » SarahHeartburn: Makes me long for the pot candy stores in NY back in the 80's. A window display that held a couple of rancid YooHoos, shelves that held several packs ... more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: This explains the famous Bolivian tourists of the past: Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Mike Tyson. more » SpicyMeatball: Apparently this dude was too young or well-behaved to be acquainted with Brownie's. That was nothing BUT a coke bar and they certainly didn't rove. more » -
#metaphors
2012's Triumph Tests the Mettle of America's Headline Writers
When an apocalypse-themed movie rakes in truckloads of money, no copy editor on Earth, looking to top to a weekend tallies story, could withstand the temptation of the epic cataclysm metaphor waiting for them tied up with a box . More » -
#games
Gawker Guessing Game: The New York Post's Heavy Metal Headline
Damn, New York Post. You rocked it with today's headline, which gets placed in the epic "STAB BABY" headline file. But why so serious? Who're they talking about? Pinch Sulzberger? Col Allen? Jon Gosselin? Make guesses, place your bets! Ready? More » -
#mediacrack
The New Yorker's Dark Anti-Brazil Conspiracy Uncovered
In your conspiratorial Thursday media column: The New Yorker hates Brazil, Laurel Touby bids you farewell, Pinch Sulzberger ups his humor quotient, and sexism exists. More » -
#journalismism
'World's First Cocaine Bar' Discovered, Far Away
The Guardian says the "World's First Cocaine Bar" is a roving lounge in Bolivia where backpackers come and sniff cheap coke till their money runs out. Huh. Here we call that a "coke spot" and in some neighborhoods they're everywhere. -
#headlines
The New York Post Never Forgets
Oh New York Post, is there any Bill Clinton story you can't work a Monica Lewinsky joke into? The banner headline over the former president's heroic rescue of Euna Lee and Laura Ling: "BILL CAN STILL GET THE WOMEN" -
#headlines
Pity Itty Bitty Kitty: Cupboard's Bare Cause Mother's There. Snackin' Fatty Dragged in Paddy Wagon.
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#badvertising
Yelp Sorry About Ruining Anti-Rape Message
Whoops: Yelp signed up "SF Women Against Rape" as a sponsor of its email newsletter, then ran their ad under an insinuating headline about bicycles that read, "Put the Fun Between Your Legs." Cue the outrage! More » -
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#piratewars
Violent Pirate Pilot Silent, Save for Raves of Hater Paper
Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, the surviving teenage Somali pirate, was back in court yesterday, making the best of his unplanned NYC visit. So far his main contribution has been to stimulate New York Post headline writers: More » -
#headlines
"STAB DAD NABBED IN DRAG." That's like an entire section of the Post's rhyming dictionary.
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#gotchajournalismism
CNN Confuses Similar-Looking Bush, Obama
It's OK, CNN. We all have our suspicions about which world leaders conspired to launch this "spontaneous" swine-flu panic. But we'd pair Bush with someone from PRI. At least you "fixed" the "error" quickly. -
#headlines
Post Suddenly Soft on Republican Defectors
Rupert Murdoch's last biographer thinks his young wife is turning him soft and liberal. Maybe so: The mogul's pet tabloid went easy on party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter today, compared with Jim Jeffords in 2001. More » -
#piratewars
Caterwauling Marauder Led to Slaughter: Keening Corsair Is Tabloid Fodder
Somali teen pirate sensation Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse (today's spelling!) went to court yesterday, and guess what, he cried. Will this give the NY Post the chance to use the term "Priva-Tears?" Let's find out! More » -
#developing
Drudge Warns of Imaginary Killer Boner Spider
Drudge: "ORGANIC: World's Deadliest Spider Found in WHOLE FOODS Produce..." Story: two experts dispute both the identification of the spider and that spider's deadliness. Plus: More » -
#headlines
Journalists Hard at Work
This headline from the Trentonian is about some traffic accident. Just go with it. It was nearly as clever as this item from the Guardian's music blog, screen-grabbed by an alert reader: More » -
#journalismism
Dumbstruck Young Buck's Tough Luck: Dry Teat on Crime Beat
Lo: Remember the Good Old Days of journalism, when NYC precinct houses were full of dozens of grizzled, worldly reporters covering gritty city crime? Now it's just one 23 year-old from the Brooklyn Paper. More » -
#freakoutnomics
Fear 'The Swedish Model'
Oh no! Not the Swedish model! Look carefully at that terrifying blue and yellow Nordic Cross; it is our generation's hammer and sickle. More »
