In their sports section, Gene Cherry wrote an article covering the results of the 200m sprint at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Saturday. Either Gene was in a funny mood, or someone needs to educate Gene on double-entendres...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6622I420100703
Needless to say, it's doing the rounds on Twitter...
(Yes, I am a member of the Twitterati, FWIW)
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Reporters
and the people who write headlines are two separate entities. Unless it happens to be a blogger(I've been there and done that for two LPGA tournaments) the person reporting the news isn't involved in the writing of the headline. How many headlines have we seen that don't match what the article reports? Quite a few.
"When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information."- Ted Rall
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Unfortunate Reuters headline
I can just hear Jay Leno and the talking heads on Fox having a field day with this.
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