Nick Bergus » headlines http://nbergus.com Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things Mon, 14 May 2012 16:03:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Phrases to avoid in headlines and ledes, part 294 http://nbergus.com/2008/12/phrases-to-avoid-in-headlines-and-ledes-part-294/ http://nbergus.com/2008/12/phrases-to-avoid-in-headlines-and-ledes-part-294/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:00:09 +0000 nbergus http://nbergus.com/?p=204 It’s offical: Fev at “Headsup: The Blog” agrees with one of my previous admonitions.

]]> http://nbergus.com/2008/12/phrases-to-avoid-in-headlines-and-ledes-part-294/feed/ 0 Oh no, they didn’t! http://nbergus.com/2008/11/oh-no-they-didnt/ http://nbergus.com/2008/11/oh-no-they-didnt/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:50:56 +0000 nbergus http://nbergus.com/?p=189 The Gazette’s A1 hed on Wednesday, Nov. 5:

The Gazette’s sports section hed on Sunday, Nov. 9:

I already complained about Wednesday’s Obama hed. Reusing the hed — down to the exclamation point! — a second time this week doesn’t make it better.  As the ancient Chinese proverb goes: Cliché me once, shame on you; cliché me twice, shame on me.

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