From the ABC News website:
‘Ecstatic’ Britney Spears Has Baby Boy
That’s the main headline, or “hed,” as we j-bots say. Here’s the subhed:
Pop Star Britney Spears ‘Ecstatic’ Over the Birth of Her First Child, a Baby Boy
Gotta love it, eh? The subhed repeats the main, and manages to get in my favorite stupid redundancy — that it was a “baby” boy. As opposed to those common cases where women go into labor and produce a toddler or, rarely, a full-size adolescent.
My hed: Pop star Spears, future trailer-park resident reproduce: ‘It’s a boy’ is the call in the delivery room as lawyers stand by for formal-separation squeeze play.
Eh. Maybe a little wordy.
brian stouder said on September 15, 2005 at 5:31 pm
further subhead –
“Proud father proclaims ‘It takes a man to make a man’, with his hands in his pockets searching for their prey”
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alex said on September 15, 2005 at 7:42 pm
Atrocious editing that befits the subject matter, if you ask me.
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deb said on September 16, 2005 at 4:40 pm
how about “pop tart pops one out.”
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brian stouder said on September 16, 2005 at 5:14 pm
“how about “pop tart pops one out.”
Excellent!
Sound like a British tabloid. The effect would complete with either a really unflattering pic of the Brit-meister, or else an ‘accidently on purpose’ picture of a baboon cleaning her teeth at the zoo (or some such)
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