Headline writing is probably fun. To someone.
I remember the (possibly apocryphal) story that after Loeb (of Leopold & Loeb) was murdered by a fellow inmate, newsman Ed Lahey got out a headline that read, "Richard Loeb, despite his erudition, today ended his sentence with a proposition." Witty, in that the plea of the killer was that Loeb had propositioned him, then assaulted him, and that in order to defend himself he'd had to cut Loeb 58 times with a straight razor in the shower. (They were serious about self-defense in those days.)
Anyway, since Yahoo! apparently can't even tell a Diva from a Dude - well, I don't expect we'll be hearing about the clever web headline of 200X anytime soon. Unless you count the headlines over at The Onion. Some of those are pretty memorable.
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