8.26.2009

Stupid USA Today headlines

Now, I love USA Today just as much as the next small-minded, underinformed reader (that's a joke), but sometimes their headlines are just plain stupid.

I know they don't mean them to be dumb, but sometimes instead of announcing, let's say, the findings of a new study, they'll just run a headline saying, "90% of teens like to talk on cell phones."

Oh, really.

So, I've decided to start compiling dumb USA Today headlines, not to say the stories aren't good, but to highlight the poor construction of the bold, black type running above these stories.

Today's selection:
"Pirates fans fed up with years of losing."

This is news? (This is a serious feature on how Pittsburgh fans today are coping with even more losing, but the headline is written in a format that suggests breaking news of some kind, or at least a change in a commonly accepted trend. But the information is neither of these, and thus the headline is stupid.)

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