Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Headlines

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’Nuff Said
“But the headline, whatever apologies may be made for its bad manners and its offenses against good taste, remains one of the clearest illustrations of the temper of a newspaper—of its sensational character or of a restrained desire to indicate the nature of the news beneath it without exploiting it.”

  —Lucy Maynard Solomon, journalism educator, 1923






Editorial Comment: As my mother always said, there’s no accounting for taste.




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