Via Sully, we learn of a
"Non-Interesting Headline" contest:
The Great British Blogger, Nige, is engaged on a "tireless quest for soporific non-stories." A variation on Mike Kinsley's famous "Most Boring Headline Contest", it requires a smidgen more content. The latest is a fantastic effort by the BBC's Jenny Sims on the burning question "Cardboard boxes used to be free, so what happened?":
Readers are invited to send in similar (non-Onion) examples if they come across them. Points will be awarded for hacks' herculean efforts to make these stories interesting.
Of course this makes me think of me
(duh), and
my magazine idea.
I think I'd like to start a rival magazine for InTouch. Anti-InTouch, actually. Covers would scream things like this:
BRAD AND ANGELINA ARE JUST FINE, NOT FIGHTING. SEEM HAPPY IN THEIR MARRIAGE.
TOM & KATIE ARE TWO EQUALS IN A SECURE, REAL MARRIAGE.
PLASTIC SURGERY? I DO NOT KNOW, DESPITE THESE WEIRDLY-ANGLED, UNFLATTERING PHOTOS. I WOULD NEED TO SEE MEDICAL RECORDS.
JENNIFER DID NOT SPEND LAST NIGHT CRYING, DRUNK-TEXTING BRAD.
IS LINDSAY ON THE EDGE? I HAVE NO IDEA, I DO NOT KNOW HER PERSONALLY.
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