Hospitals: Threat or menace?
By Jay Levitt - 5/1/08 - 3:12 pm
Our hospitals are releasing deadly, toxic fumes into the atmosphere! The Globe has the story:
Boy poisoned by carbon monoxide released from hospital
Oh... my mistake. Just a bad headline from whichever Globe editor didn't quit last week.
Comments
Might not be the Globe's fault...specifically
By anon (not verified) - 5/1/08 - 4:26 pm
While a Globe editor probably could've changed this to a better headline, they likely didn't come up with this one on their own. It probably came from the Associated Press. The Boston Herald has [url=http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1090379] the same exact headline on its Web site[/url].
Also, probably only online and not in print
By Ron Newman - 5/1/08 - 4:48 pm
Both papers seem to be presenting AP articles on their web sites, probably without much editorial filtering or rewriting.
Indeed. There have been a
By stephencaldwell - 5/1/08 - 4:52 pm
Indeed. There have been a number of times that I've seen the "correction" wires that the AP sends which have no content, just something like "-dead, +injured" on the Globe.
I see no problem with the
By anon (not verified) - 5/1/08 - 5:21 pm
I see no problem with the headline - works for me. I had to strain to see the second meaning. When you have to keep it short, these things happen.
Sorry
By Jay Levitt - 5/1/08 - 5:37 pm
Sorry to hear about the strain, anon. You should go to a hospital for that.
Breaking news
By Kaz - 5/1/08 - 11:02 pm
Anon gets the headline chastised by Jay
Zing.
Best!
By John K (not verified) - 5/1/08 - 6:26 pm
That's the best headline I've seen in a long long time!
Sending it by email to my list of newspaper friends.
Those newspapers aren't
By Dave - 5/1/08 - 11:46 pm
Those newspapers aren't really your friends; they just like you for your page views.
Oh yeah? Then why...
By Jay Levitt - 5/2/08 - 7:15 am
I am fairly certain there is a comeback, too dirty to print here anyway, involving the word "masthead". Sadly, I can't quite think of it.