The phrase
"headline writers" refers to the people who create eye-catching and attention-grabbing titles for news articles or stories.
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It might also
help headline writers focus on something more meaningful than crude global mean figures when interpreting global warming findings.
In 2009, in an interview discussing his salary and banking practices, Blankfein explained to the Sunday Times that he was a banker «doing God's work,» a phrase that captured the imagination
of headline writers everywhere.
In a gift to weird
headline writers everywhere, Pope Francis said a little blessing over Amore, a green parrot belonging to a rather well - known porn actor in Italy named Francesco Lombardi, who was visiting with his wife and daughters.
SAN ANTONIO — After Donte DiVincenzo buried Michigan with 3 - pointers and dunked in traffic and swatted one shot into the stands and even forced
headline writers across America into splashing Donte's Inferno across their sports pages, it came time to reconsider one of his two glorious nicknames.
In a gift to
weird headline writers everywhere, Pope Francis said a little blessing over Amore, a green parrot belonging to a rather well - known porn actor in Italy named Francesco...
He's
got headline writers working overtime, given late night comedians plenty of fodder and raised awareness of the dangers of addiction just in time for National Addictions Awareness Week, November 18 — 24.
Belgian wonderkid Eden Hazard would be many of the fans» choice for one of the wings — as well
as headline writers nationwide.
This is the first time that NASCAR's Young Guns, as they've been tagged by
countless headline writers, have been together since the 2003 season ended, and what do they chat about?
This week the collective minds of (real) travel writers everywhere exploded when they saw the headline
And
since headline writers are lazy (even more than journalists in general), these errors accumulate as they get copied from the original scientific publication and from direct quotes from the scientists, through press releases, wire stories, and sloppily cut and pasted news stories and editorials.
The fine weather comes at a time when
tabloid headline writers have been having a field day, with predictions that the fine weather is the start of a spring and summer heatwave.
This has nothing to do with the need for better scientific review, but everything to do with the need
for headline writers to simplify things and the lack of context that is often found in news stories.
Since the 85th Academy Awards nominations were announced, Lincoln has emerged as the tentative frontrunner among a plurality
of headline writers, bloggers, and oddsmakers.
Once the news of Dolly's birth became public, in February 1997, she made headlines and captured the imagination of commentators, politicians and
headline writers across the planet.
At least
the headline writers and Twitter wags enjoyed themselves during yesterday's global financial panic.
Similarly, it can't tell you that your mind will be blown because
the headline writer has no idea what readers might consider to be incredible and amazing, or what might be simply neat or even mundane.
(Tip to
headline writers: numbers under 5 in listicle headlines and the use of celebrities» names are big draws.)
The problem with a title like «Study links vitamins to higher death rates in women,» which ran on CTV's news website, is that the study's authors did not reach that conclusion;
the headline writer did.
In other words, the AP writer, and
the headline writers (who were presumably following the writer's or AP's lead), seriously distorted the meaning of the report.
The idea of firing
the headline writer is silly and just plain mean - spirited.
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The headline writer of Edinburgh's Scotsman clearly succumbed to nostalgia in coming up with «Bishop Stirs Up a Storm Over Sex.»
Your headline writer needs to become a bit more familar with what is a dicoese and what is an archdiocese in the Catholic Church.
But that was enough for
the headline writers at the Guardian to write: «Vatican offers «time off purgatory» to followers of Pope Francis tweets.»
A headline writer for the Dayton Daily News called the performance A BUM»S RUSH.
His name may be
a headline writer's dream, especially after some very public errors, but Chelsea fans will not cry when they see him leave.
The other comment catching the attention of
the headline writers were those suggesting Javier Hernandez might be the best player West Ham have ever signed (although I wasn't sure whether ever in this context only related to the Gold and Sullivan era or to all - time).
I hope and pray the well publicised squad night out this week comes back to haunt
the headline writers tomorrow and the boys really turn it on.
The headline writers had Wesley Sneiijder and his Dutch team - mates plotting a revenge mission against Spain in Salvador tonight which might well have -LRB-...)
Whenever a team has a player sent off, even if this is in the second minute of added time, it is the duty of
the headline writer to include the phrase «Ten Man» in the description of the game.
This makes it hard for
headline writers, says Mr Easton, and politicians, who, unfortunately, usually need some kind of narrative to sell us when they adopt a particular policy or strategy.
Also in that Yahoo piece, note the (eternal) bias of the digital enthusiast for social media: the President cited letters, emails and phone calls alongside the tweets, but the reporter (and
the headline writer) focused on the Twitter angle in the story.
We salute
the headline writer, truly ve are not vorthy.
The headline writers trying to stoke the leadership race with lurid tales of rivalry and bloodshed are off the pace.
If BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) Labour mattered it would be
a headline writer's dream.
«No matter how we presented Move NY...
the headline writers, the headline always come out, «Tolls on the East River bridges» and that just rubs people the wrong way,» Schwartz recalled.