Headlines
Michael Newlands
A few examples of headlines which have stuck with me over the years include:
IRAN
AMOK
On the cover of the Economist over a photo of rioting during the revolution
THE EMPIRE
STRIKES BACK
On the cover of Newsweek over a photo of the British fleet en route to recapture the Falklands
GLITZKREIG
Over a photo in Peak Magazine of a particularly vulgar “cream of society” thrash in Hong Kong.
And there is of course the old, and probably apocryphal, tabloid rape story headline
NUT SCREWS WASHER AND BOLTS
Perhaps I’ve just got bad taste in headlines. Anybody got any modern greats?
Mike N
Patrick Neylan
legendary wartime ones:
"MacArthur flies back to front"
"Eighth Army shove bottles up Germans"
We do our best here in the trade press. I like two that we ran this
week:
...The tanker Young Lady was struggling in gale-force winds and
reportedly dropped anchor on BP's oil and gas collection hub, called
the Central Area Transmission System (CATS).
Headline: Young Lady interfered with CATS.
Three US organisations are suing the Coastguard over how it applies
the Jones Act.
Headline: Taking Jones by the cojones
These ones from my archive make more sense if you know the maritime
industry:
Major spat on General Average (General Average is an insurance
procedure)
Coastguard move from DOT is dashed (DOT: US Department of
Transportation)
Australia's hub port: is Darwin the natural selection?
Allen screws it up badly (Don't use allen screws on
medium-speed diesel engines!)
Rockin' Republican chick on a chopper (Mary Peters, the new US
secretary of transportation, rides a Harley. Unfortunately, we
couldn't get a picture and the headline never ran)
My favourite was when Nicola Parascandolo hired a porn star to launch
his new ferry service. Of course, we ran the picture under the
headline "The fact that launched a thousand wrists". The managing
editor went apeshit.
\Patrick