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Most Ambiguous Headline Ever

From the front page of CNN this afternoon:

It’s in regards to this story. I’m just guessing, but this probably won’t be one for the editor’s portfolio.

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Darren Barefoot is an author, speaker and digital strategist. He’s the co-founder of Capulet Communications, and co-author of “Friends With Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook”.

5 comments

  1. I think I can beat that with one or two I’ve seen on the BBC News website. One of them was “Hotel death fall wife back in UK.” ??!?!! Stellar. Article I also remember a great sentence that made no sense because of a “which” that either should or shouldn’t have been in there… I can’t remember.. which.

    “Radiation found at dead spy’s home and haunts, UK says” might have been a *little* bit better. Don’t you agree?

  2. When I was started out, I got blasted for writing up a headline that said, “Government releases report”. It was late, I was tired, and I was 18 and unaware of just how generic that was. Fortunately, the managing editor thought I wrote it up as a joke.

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