Comments on: Best newspaper headlines ever

By: Tonie Stanton

Tonie Stanton — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:31:59 +0000

I once covered a story where firefighters found a woman in a burning home who was already dead. When they got her outside they discovered she had been shot. When I got back to the office the wire had published the following:

Woman Found Shot To Death By Firemen

By: Hemanth

Hemanth — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:10:43 +0000

Nice list.

I remember one I came across in the Indian Express during an India Zimbabwe cricket series long ago:

Zimbabwe collapses as Maninder plucks flowers

( Maninder was an Indian off break bowler. Andy Flower and Grant Flower formed the batting mainstay of Zimbabwe back then.)

By: Jemaleddin

Jemaleddin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was always fond of one that Mr. Schoenfeld hung up on the wall of our newspaper office: “Thompson’s Pen is Mightier than Sword” which isn’t very funny except that the spacing was off and “is” was waaaaaay too close to “Pen”.