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Jude
Post subject: Stupid headlines
Posted: Fri 09 Jul , 2010 12:37 pm
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Can you do better than this?

Shakespeare accused cleared of stealing First Folio

Capture the essence of the article in a few words, and make it unambiguous - if you can do this, you're smarter than the BBC!

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LalaithUrwen
Post subject: Re: Stupid headlines
Posted: Fri 09 Jul , 2010 1:33 pm
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Wait, so he stole it or didn't he steal it? :scratch: I'm not sure I can make a headline, since the article itself was ambiguous. It seems like he stole it.

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Jude
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Posted: Fri 09 Jul , 2010 1:57 pm
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Hmm, the page is down now - it was fine when I posted it...

If I remember correctly, the guy was cleared of stealing it. Referring to him in the headline as "Shakespeare accused" is bad journalism - whoever came up with that is what the main character in Muriel Spark's "A Far Cry from Kensington" whould refer to as "pisseur de copie" :devil:

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