Blog Post numberrrrrrrrr 11!

BLOG 11:

 WOW... some headlines are seriously lame. Below are some that I recently found, and thought that they should have not been posted to the web, in the first place. 

“Cuffed, drugged and stuffed in a bag” came from a Newspaper headline from BBC.

“Growing concern about North Korea” is very vauge.

Though the headline should reflect the overall idea of the story, I think that these few examples of headlines, are terrible examples because they do not explain it at all. A headline should tell the entire story in one sentence, or at least tell and reflect the most important information about the story. The headline should show how the story affects readers and with the headline that says, “Growing concern about North Korea” shows no real emotion and how it affects the readers. It is very vague and does not talk specifically about what the story is about. Something that I did not see when I was looking for headlines, but it should be watched out for, is to be sure that if it is not a one-lined headline, you must watch how and where the lines break. The headline should really show and stress the meaning of the of the message, and like always, the headline must follow grammar and punctuation rules specific to headline writing. This week as I was reading KSL, I noticed that most headlines are spot on, and really explain the message of the story. Typically, you can tell if you will be interested in the story, just by the headline. That is how it should be.