Unfortunate headlines of the day

The BBC News Website has changed its original headline:

SARAH PALIN LASHES OBAMA AT FIRST TEA PARTY CONVENTION

Palin lashes Obama

Palin lashes Obama

—bring your houseboy, and let’s party like it’s 1779!—to this one:

SARAH PALIN CONDEMNS OBAMA AT FIRST TEA PARTY CONVENTION

but, Liz Jones’s latest wibble—search for it if you like; I’m not going to link to it—retains its banner:

HONOUR KILLINGS? WHAT WEVE DONE TO YOUNG EMMA [WATSON] IS JUST AS SHAMEFUL

Yes, she’s is referring to the highest earning actress in the World this year. According to Jones’s article, Hollywood’s paying Ms Watson fortunes to portray a “virginal schoolgirl” is in some way comparable to the Taleban throwing acid at girls who want to attend school in Afghanistan.

Where does Britain’s nuttiest columnist have left to go after this?

3 Comments

  1. Posted 07Feb10 at 22:11 | Permalink

    Related - The Daily Show had a go at OTT online headlines last week (skip to 5:10 - 4oD because Comedy Central don’t understand the internet).

  2. Posted 08Feb10 at 09:53 | Permalink

    Wow, she’s really far out there. This is pioneering journalism: opening up grand new vistas of nuttiness that others can then colonize. Liz should be lauded as a visionary.

  3. Posted 05Apr10 at 22:44 | Permalink

    Where does Britain’s nuttiest columnist have left to go after this?”

    Back to North Devon of course, where the locals have bad teeth and shoot holes in her letterbox when she tells them so.

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