Quotes About Headlines

I think grammar teaching should start with real examples of language in use: journalism, fiction, songs, ads, instructions, headlines, transcripts of conversations and so on.

When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.

The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.

The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something they want - and get from you.

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Poetry, the most intimate form of expression, gives us a deeper sense of reality than headlines and news stories ever could.

I can see the headlines. Sawyer made a sweeping motion in the air with his hand. Deadly Toilet in Shit War Kills Three. Jill giggled so hard that she got the hiccups. Feud takes three out in initial battle of the shit war.

The amount of players who get into trouble in the NFL is a very small minority, but they are the ones who make the headlines.

Headlines don't have to be complete sentences, nor do they have to be punctuated unless they are.

Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

Joe Public never took long to move to the next news sensation. Downed airliners, earthquakes in China, tsunamis killing tens of thousands, or myriad of disasters that trotted across the news bulletins regularly, all of them were always replaced by the next big headline.

Unless something moves by more than its usual daily percentage change, the event is deemed to be noise. Percentage moves are the size of the headlines. In addition, the interpretation is not linear; a 2% move is not twice as significant an event as 1%, it is rather like four to ten times. A 7% move can be several billion times more relevant than a 1% move!

The discovery—an unknown city in Peru that was as old as the Egyptian Pyramids—set off headlines around the world.

Polemical, conflicting, attention-grabbing headlines like these are the mainstay of the media. And with good reason. It isn't truth that grabs our brains. It is certainty. It isn't balanced, considered analysis that captures our attention. It is bold and confident assertion.

A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.

Finally, it was the city that held us, the city they said had no center, that all of us had come to from all over America because this was the place to find dreams and pleasure and love. I noticed--looking at headlines--that some cities emptied and some didn't. Ours didn't, not completely.

If a man bites a dog, that is news.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

AH I know is what I see in the papers.

I follow a lot of news outlets on Twitter, so I'll just go skim through the headlines and see what's going on.

The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines.

I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.