Top 5 most useless likely British headlines

Sep. 9th, 2008 03:09 am
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5. Celebrity behaves in stereotypical manner again
4. Next week's [tv show] has best twist ever [ending]
3. Headlines resort to reporting selves self-referential
2. Scientist misquoted as saying something everyone knew anyway
1. Universe continues to exist today
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Date: 2008-09-09 07:11 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] rjw76
6. British tennis player loses :P :P

Date: 2008-09-09 11:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
See (5) :)

Date: 2008-09-09 11:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leonerd.livejournal.com
With regard to point 1: isn't news a report on what is new? Simply observing the status quo doesn't count.

Date: 2008-09-09 11:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
I think I didn't mean "Pieces of news, that are useless", but "attempts as useful pieces of news, that fail", thus not being news at all is indeed worthy of a high spot on the list :)
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