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Monday, February 11, 2019

MEDIA MONDAY / DIGEST OF SQUAWKS, SNORTS, GUFFAWS AND GASPS


For better or worse the above headline appeared first in the Huffington Post and was penned by HP reporter Hayley Miller.
“In the tabloid tradition, a good headline must do three things: it must communicate the news; it must commit some act of wordplay; and it must trigger a certain popping of the eyes in its reader, ideally accompanied by some kind of involuntary subverbal response—a squawk, a snort, a guffaw, a gasp,” said Eric Lach recently in New Yorker magazine. His article can be clicked to read below.  On Saturday this post credited the tabloid New York Post for creating an instant classic on its Friday front page: “Bezos Exposes Pecker.” We were wrong.  As New Yorker states the headline first appeared on Thursday in Huffington Post reporting.  It harkens a play on an old chestnut: “a great headline has a thousand parents and a bad one is an orphan. Read how this new instant classic headline came to be:

NEW YORKER
STORY BEHIND THE INSTANT CLASSIC “BEZOS EXPOSES PECKER” HEADLINE. Click here.

OTHER JOURNALISM WORTH A CLICK: 
CNN BUSINESS:
THINKING ABOUT LEAVING FACEBOOK? READ THIS FIRST.  Click here.


COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER CAPTURES AN UNVARNISHED VIEW OF BEING AN UGLY FEUD WITH ROGER STONE. Click here.


BBC CAPITAL
WHEN YOUR BRAIN WORKS BEST, STUDY REVEALS  Click here.


CNN HEALTH
STUDY: STATINS WORK, PERIOD; EVEN FOR AGED. Click here.


HERE'S SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE'S TAKE ON THIS WHOLE PECKER HEAD BUSINESS:
Click here.

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