Headlines in the clouds

Fans of Huffington Post seem quite excited about this: The headline for today's top story is "No, YOU Lie" - but the Drudge-like snark isn't the point. Readers who think they can come up with a more clever headline (how hard could it be?) can Tweet their brilliance and have it join the #headlinehelp string.

From Huffington Post:

"No, YOU Lie" Can you write a better headline? Check our top story at http://huffingtonpost.com and reply with the hashtag #headlinehelp!

The contest has inspired lots of "pants on fire" riffs, but it's still not clear to me whether HuffPo plans to actually use any of the suggested headline.

Oh, the horror

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune had a faulty headline in today's paper. Very faulty.

Here it is.

It's not as bad as the San Bernardino Sun running a caption that read "Horsing Around" under a photo of a riderless horse in a cop's funeral procession. But close.

This should remind us all of the value of a good copy editor.

Speaking of which, I hear the copy editors have returned to the Tribune after being exiled to San Bernardino as part of a nutty cost-savings scheme... None too soon, it seems. Let's hope the failed experiment makes its way to the ears of the Singleton big wigs.