Hospitals: Threat or menace?
Our hospitals are releasing deadly, toxic fumes into the atmosphere! The Globe has the story:
[URL=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/04/29/boy_poisoned_by_carbon_monoxide_released_from_hospital?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Local+news]Boy poisoned by carbon monoxide released from hospital[/url]
Oh... my mistake. Just a bad headline from whichever Globe editor [i]didn't[/i] quit last week.
Might not be the Globe's fault...specifically
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
Both papers seem to be presenting AP articles on their web sites, probably without much editorial filtering or rewriting.
Indeed. There have been a
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
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
Sorry to hear about the strain, anon. You should go to a hospital for that.
Breaking news
Anon gets the headline chastised by Jay
Zing.
Best!
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
Those newspapers aren't really your friends; they just like you for your page views.
Oh yeah? Then why...
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.