Headlines 2

This week, I learned just how tough writing headlines can be. I don’t want that to sound like a cop-out – I promise it’s sincere. That is also not to say that I ever thought writing headlines way easy per say, but I certainly did not expect it to be as difficult as was. To be honest, the task seemed near impossible for a couple moments and I marveled that anyone could do it as a living. As I went down through the assignment, however, I began to guess with a certain level of accuracy whether a certain phrase would or would not fit within a certain number of characters, with either going over or staying under. It began to almost flow for me. I also rediscovered my love for a thesaurus – especially when needing an alternative word with the same exact meaning but an entirely different length. It stretched my ability to think concisely and succinctly, and in the next breath stretch out the meaning into more words.

My mistake for this week is a bit a quirky one. I caught it in the textbook reading for my public relations class. The mistake is within the a quote, so whether it was the publishers of the textbook that got the purpose of the websites mixed up, or the quoted individual themselves, is ambiguous. For the sake of the reputation of the textbook publisher’s, though, lets hope it was the quoted. The mistake says “…social video hosting on Photobucket, photo hosting on YouTube.” It is YouTube that provides social video hosting, though, and Photobucket photo hosting.