Behind the headlines (Part 2)...

Headline poser: What's "wrong" with these two examples?

Answer: These two gentlemen's hosts were not impressed; in fact, their "charm" was deemed offensive (ie, going by the respective headlines, not the stories)!

With such ambiguity in mind, you should easily spot the unintended meaning in this next headline too...

Yup, seems it's the judge (with the disparaging tongue) who needs more reformative training! Sometimes you need a headline that needs more words to achieve clarity:

In this puzzling headline below, is it the teaching assistant or the student who is underaged? Why not write it as "Teaching assistant gets jail for sex with underaged student"?...

  
Here's another poser: if you are incontinent, should you take raspberries?...

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For the rest of today's blog entry, I'll highlight praiseworthy headlines...

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This catchy headline probably caught your eye...

...just about the same story below, but the headline -- while accurate -- is not as catchy:

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Very clever, this depiction of an "education arms race"!...

This strap heading's use of "rebels without a clue" (playing on "Rebel without a cause") is classy...

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Last one...  the headline writer skillfully zoomed in on the most interesting part in the story and used that in the headline. Very good!...