Headline style pet peeve

[Stupid]

looks like someone found a shortcut to fitting heds and now can't stop himself/herself from using it — everywhere

To shirt, the Post heds have gone

 

[MileHigh]

I don't like the headlines. People don't talk that way, and it's awkward for the reader. It creates an unnecessary break.

 

[SCEditor]

I think Dyepack would agree with me, but I don't know why they even bother putting pictures or headlines on pages anymore. Shouldn't they just run stories and that's it? I mean, think about how much money they could invest on a third or fourth, or maybe a fifth guy who could cover the Redskins. That way the writers wouldn't have to write more than two stories a week.

 

[DyePack]

I think Dyepack would agree with me, but I don't know why they even bother putting pictures or headlines on pages anymore. Shouldn't they just run stories and that's it? I mean, think about how much money they could invest on a third or fourth, or maybe a fifth guy who could cover the Redskins. That way the writers wouldn't have to write more than two stories a week.

Outing alert: SCEditor is the first ME I ever worked with, dispensing such fine advice as: "I don't want a page with just text." How helpful.

 

[spnited]

Those heads are atrocious.
In fact, when I see that kind of writing in copy I change it and tell the writer to please stop writing "backward sentences."

 

[SCEditor]

Outing alert: SCEditor is the first ME I ever worked with, dispensing such fine advice as: "I don't want a page with just text." How helpful.

Despite the fact that I'm 24, which obviously negates me from being your first ME, the other indication that I wasn't your first ME is I would have fired you within a week of you working for me.

 

[DyePack]

Outing alert: SCEditor is the first ME I ever worked with, dispensing such fine advice as: "I don't want a page with just text." How helpful.

Despite the fact that I'm 24, which obviously negates me from being your first ME, the other indication that I wasn't your first ME is I would have fired you within a week of you working for me.

And wouldn't that have been a merry time of misrule.

 

[SCEditor]

Start a poll. I'm pretty sure I'm in the majority.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

Outing alert: The headline writer for the Post is Yoda.

 

[DyePack]

Start a poll. I'm pretty sure I'm in the majority.

As fun as that might be, I'll save it for another day.

 

[KP]

Small point, it's Monday's paper.

 

[DyePack]

I can just hear the "Duh ...................." as the genius came up with "The Block," "The Recovery," etc.

How f'ing hard is it to use a brain cell or two and think up something remotely clever?

SCEditor need not answer, BTW.