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Comment by rossdavidh | Hacker News Reader

Somewhere a NYTimes headline writer is pumping their fist in the air...

Everyone's still trying to top "Headless Body In Topless Bar" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#Style

I was going to suggest "Foot Heads Arms Body", but that one is apparently a myth. Despite considerable interest in the headline and a widespread belief that it actually ran, mentions of it seem to be universally vague about the particular appointment (which would at least tell us that there was an actual event about which to run an article) and nobody has produced the article itself.

My favourite has always been 'Ike beats Tina to death'

Writing headlines was one of the joys of my time in the journalism industry. I especially liked alliteration.

When I moved to television, the opportunities came and went with the talent (anchors). Some loved it, some hated it.

On morning shows you could get away with a lot of things. I would occasionally write entire stories in iambic pentameter, or as poems, because when you're pounding out copy at 1am, that's what you do to keep your brain engaged.

One of my favorite memories was the day I aired a live feed of something happening in New Zealand. The chyron I wrote was "Aukland, New Zealand/Tomorrow."

I thought a chyron would be some poetic form I'd never heard of. It's actually the text and graphics at the bottom of the screen on a news program.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chyron

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