No one denies that journalism is a tough job and journalists are supposed to be good with words. But there are some gaffes, I mean everyone screws up one time or another.
Let’s hear it for the journalists who wrote these headlines, were they trying to be witty or sarcastic or just plain stupid?
How about you and me figure it out?
#1. Sounds like a South Park episode
Remember the meme about why commas are important? The difference between “Let’s eat, Grandma” and “Let’s eat Grandma”?
Well, commas are not needed here, but a different way to phrase this headline that doesn’t say Eric Cartman was involved in this.
#2. This Moroccan newspaper
In another obvious news, cellphones didn’t exist until they were invented, dinosaurs were alive before they got extinct, and the twin towers were standing before the planes hit them.
Although, you might be interested in 11 movies and books that predicted 9/11. And no, one of them is not the Simpsons.
#3. Headline is not the only thing wrong with this piece
Obviously, a man wrote this piece. First, he screws up the math in headline. Then he talks about “especially women” hating math, without having any data to back him up. How about you go to a math class first, dudebro? And then we’ll see what to do about your misogyny.
#4. Uh-oh
Well, teen pregnancy drops off after the age 20, duh.
#5. Oxygen was discovered in 1772, this fellow discovered it in 1996
I’m so thrilled to read more of this person’s other brilliant articles about how drinking water is linked to avoid getting thirsty, or how eating food is linked to avoid hunger.
#6. Then the joint committee sent it to the High Court
Get it?
#7. Greatest headline of all time
This is not only the greatest headline, but also the greatest story of all time. Some might say the writer gave away all the details in the headline, but isn’t that just the trailer? We want the whole film.
#8. Next episode: they raid a drug store, find drugs
Although, if you read the story you’d see that the gun shop had more than just guns, they had land mines, grenades, dynamites and other stuff. The headline could have been written in some other way, though.
#9. Did Captain Obvious write this?
You all do remember Captain Obvious, don’t you?
#10. And they were turned on by the size of Trump’s package
Republicans, doing everything that a normal person wouldn’t. Because, to a normal person size doesn’t matter. Here’s what does.
#11. Is that supposed to be funny?
As long as you’re the one-handed man making jokes about yourself, it’s okay. Like the one-armed girl with the most hilarious bio on tinder. Otherwise, it’s never okay to make jokes at other people’s expense. Like Terry Pratchett once said:
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.
#12. Wordplay? Just don’t do it, Nike.
He is not the only one who plays with them, there were 250 others.
(For those who need context, Tiger Woods cheated on his wife with 250 women during the 5 years he was married to her.)
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