Week 11

Headlines have not always been my strong point. I’m not super into journalism, and most of the time I think that the public newspapers do a great job with their headlines. But, taking a deeper look, and considering all of the things that I have learned in this class, there are more things that I notice for a good and bad headline.

There was a headline that I came across that isn’t recent, or anywhere local, but I thought it was hilarious.

It’s a headline from Mississippi. It says: Missippi’s literacy program shows improvement.

I thought it was hilarious, and obviously to the people who had posted it was funny too, but they misspelled the state and it was a post all about literacy of the state. That is something that definitely needs to be looked over twice or maybe even three times, just so that people don’t look like idiots on a very public level.

A good headline that I came across was this: Woman charged with battery after McDonald’s bacon argument turns physical.

Most people, like myself would think, what the heck? The headline is hilarious and leaves you wanting to read more.

I you have a poor headline, it will render your article invisible. Which I believe to be true. It’s still something that I need to work on, because I’m not the best. But I thought that this one was so good, it was so bizarre that there isn’t any way you can pass up reading it just based on the headline.