Recent Posts Tagged With 'headline'

• A Generation Hat is Ignored and Scorned

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 13:25 in typo, headline, national newspaper

  I did mention this great typo on Twitter yesterday but I think it's worth recording for posterity on the blog. You never know, the Daily Express might get around to fixing it at some point:Daily Express: A Generation Hat is Ignored and Scorned ...

• Headlines: 'Blears jumps ship as Labour sinks'

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 14:38 in politics, labour, headline, idiom, hazel blears, thelondonpaper, jump ship

  Today's thelondonpaper has an interesting front page headline:Blears jumps ship as Labour sinksThis is, of course, referring to Hazel Blears' resignation as communities secretary.However I've always thought that someone who 'jumps ship' doesn't just ...

• Missing chef 'has come to harm' (maybe)

  Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 11:51 in chef, bbc news, headline, body copy, claudia lawrence

  Here's a recent BBC News story where the headline and the body copy fail to agree:The headline says the missing chef has come to harm, whereas the body copy says she "may have" and (in the quote) "has probably" come to harm. That's a big difference, ...

• Headline: Overturned lorry driver arrested

  Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 07:40 in colleagues, bbc news, headline, lorry drivers

  Thanks to my colleague Ro for pointing out this BBC News headline:This suggests that it is the driver that overturned, not the lorry (although the driver probably did overturn with his vehicle). ...

• Press release: stop next generation dying

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 11:01 in colleagues, press release, brake, headline

  One of my colleagues recently passed me a press release from road safety charity Brake with the following headline:Local education project to stop next generation dyingQuite an ambitious – and worrying – aim! ...