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A Piece Of Non-News
Headline on BBC web site:
"60 children unhurt after bus crash in Newport"
http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ news/uk -wales- 2582982 3
Reminds me of a competition that was held a few years ago to find the most uninteresting headline for a British newspaper.
The winner was "Small earthquake in Chile, not many dead".
The winner for the most exciting headline was:
"Pope's wife gives birth to triplets"
"60 children unhurt after bus crash in Newport"
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Reminds me of a competition that was held a few years ago to find the most uninteresting headline for a British newspaper.
The winner was "Small earthquake in Chile, not many dead".
The winner for the most exciting headline was:
"Pope's wife gives birth to triplets"
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"Whitstable mum in custard shortage"
"Sunderland Fire-fighters Rescue Duck From Lake"
"Kitten That Looks Like Hitler - Pictures"
http:// www.buz zfeed.c om/luke lewis/4 5-earth -shatte ring-lo cal-new s-headl ines
"Sunderland Fire-fighters Rescue Duck From Lake"
"Kitten That Looks Like Hitler - Pictures"
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Here are a few more:
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VHG, the Chilean headline was in the Times; it was written in the course of a surreptitious competition among journalists to produce the most boring headline. The winner was Claud Cockburn, who was himself a writer and literary figure of some note who worked at the paper to make money to live on. I think Graham Greene was doing the same at the time.