Speaking of heds … Betteridge’s law of headlines

Via Wikipedia

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.

It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

Holy sh*t! That is some big f’ing Jesus hed!

What is that pointsize? About a million? If there were a Newspaper box around to check, I’m guessing that this would cover everything above the fold. I guess the non-Atlanta Braves did something important in sports ball.

Here’s the “real” Front page:

Nice 9-11 graphic

USA today came up with this and several papers around the country raan with it. Interestingly, USA did not use it on their Front Page.