From the Headlines I Wish I’d Written Department:
Some headlines are so bad, they’re great. The award today goes to the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal likes to feature an offbeat human interest story at the bottom of its front page. Today’s entry is about art of butter sculpting, in particular the butter carving competition at the Minnesota State Fair.
The headline: “When It Comes to Butter Carving, There’s No Margarine for Error”
The award for most appropriate headline of the day goes to the Cleveland Plain Dealer (see graphic of today’s front page, at right). The headline writers used one word – Gone. – to sum up the departure of Cleveland Cavaliers player LeBron James, who announced on a hyperventilating ESPN show last night that he was signing a contract with the Miami Heat.
I’m not a pro basketball fan, but I am a newspaper fan. The Plain Dealer’s front page is well done. I have to admit I liked the editorializing in the graphic, an arrow pointing to James’s finger: “7 years in Cleveland. No rings.”
I’m surprised the page wasn’t sponsored by that new (and very real) website: www.fyoulebron.com. I won’t link to it, but type in the URL and it says, pretty plainly, what you’d expect it to say.
Scanning the news sites this a.m. for stories for the Daily Alert…
There it was in the Charlottesville paper - a story way out of step with the current stretch of 90-degree heat and 150-percent humidity:
It’s about time.
