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I got home and checked my emails, and fellow Reader writer Jay Sanford sent me a bizarre headline about Ike Turner's death. It said "Ike beats Tina to Death."
That made me think...why do newspapers sometimes do funny headlines, and other times they don't? The L.A. Times is always looking for puns. And they do some good ones.
I don't know why I didn't see any headline, or story start: What is coronary thrombosis that causes the hearts failure to not work properly? And, then it would talk about Alex Trebek of Jeopardy! who had a recent heart attack.
Maybe editors thought that would be in bad taste, to start a story with a question, the way the show does with their answers. But hey...everyone did the predictable Michael Vick lines of "He went from an Atlanta Falcons jersey #7, to a jail issued #7033432." And, that would be cute, if they didn't use those same lines with Pete Rose and Mike Tyson.
I got home and checked my emails, and fellow Reader writer Jay Sanford sent me a bizarre headline about Ike Turner's death. It said "Ike beats Tina to Death."
That made me think...why do newspapers sometimes do funny headlines, and other times they don't? The L.A. Times is always looking for puns. And they do some good ones.
I don't know why I didn't see any headline, or story start: What is coronary thrombosis that causes the hearts failure to not work properly? And, then it would talk about Alex Trebek of Jeopardy! who had a recent heart attack.
Maybe editors thought that would be in bad taste, to start a story with a question, the way the show does with their answers. But hey...everyone did the predictable Michael Vick lines of "He went from an Atlanta Falcons jersey #7, to a jail issued #7033432." And, that would be cute, if they didn't use those same lines with Pete Rose and Mike Tyson.