Comments on: Making Headlines http://renf.org/dory/2008/05/making-headlines/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Ron http://renf.org/dory/2008/05/making-headlines/#comment-40 Ron Wed, 14 May 2008 14:03:33 +0000 http://renf.org/dory/?p=13#comment-40 Yeah. Night-time copy editors don't get enough credit for writing headlines. That being said, we also don't get yelled at for writing bad ones either. Maybe it's a quantity thing... when something makes headlines it generally makes BIGGER headlines. 80 points on the front, as opposed to that little 12 point thing on a brief on page A9. Just saying. Yeah. Night-time copy editors don’t get enough credit for writing headlines. That being said, we also don’t get yelled at for writing bad ones either.

Maybe it’s a quantity thing… when something makes headlines it generally makes BIGGER headlines. 80 points on the front, as opposed to that little 12 point thing on a brief on page A9. Just saying.

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