Headlines in newspapers and magazines were once written with readers in mind, to be clever or catchy or evocative. Now headlines are just there to get the search engines to notice. ... Keep in mind that all of the things that make headlines meaningful in print — photographs, placement and context — are nowhere in sight on the Web. Headlines have become, as Gabriel Snyder, the recently appointed executive editor of Newsweek.com, “naked little creatures that have to go out into the world to stand and fight on their own.”I have no idea, although it seems to me that plenty of internet sites have fun with headlines.
But there really is something magical about the great, at the newspaper kiosk in black and white, loud headline like my favorite of all time, right? Ha!
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