Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Aug. 3 issue: "JEN SPEAKS" (cover story)
Hey, look, everyone! People magazine and Weekly World News are collaborating on a slick new daily!
Click here for cover until I get back to a non-shitty computer and photoblog it.
Click here for cover until I get back to a non-shitty computer and photoblog it.
Aug. 3 issue: Where's the verb?
The headline on today's page 4 story about Chicago's new City Hall hiring monitor, Noelle Brennan, just says: "City Hall monitor". This head doesn't tell us what this City Hall monitor does or why the position exists. Headlines should include verbs or at least somehow imply verbs. It is very hard to write an informative headline with such a large font and so little space; that's why you just have to take the time to juggle a lot of different combinations of nouns, adjectives and verbs until something acceptable fits. Hell, I'm having trouble thinking of a good one for this. If it were my job, I'd keep thinking about it...
RedEye Fold-In!
Perhaps I dug MAD too much as a kid. But did anyone else notice this about RedEye's April 20 issue? Just fold until "ABORTION" meets "A POPE'S TASK."
I emailed a RedEye designer about this but he never responded.
Feel free to suggest captions in comments. Mine would be: "Surgical pliers, please!"
