"Men threatened with gun while working on one of them's car"

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These here is last Tuesday's The Daily Tribune News of Cartersville, Georgia. Sadly, they've fixed the online version of the article, but you can still read how the DTN is literally redefining journalism by apologizing for the headline.
No word on what happened to the man who exercised foolish beer-sharing judgment.
Oh man. That was freakin' fabulous. Please believe I shared this with all of my friends from J-school.
Where do you find these things? It's a gift, I tell you. A gift!
Posted by: mags | April 02, 2007 at 10:44 AM
OMG, my uncle Dale got into the newspaper biz.
Posted by: porkwatson | April 02, 2007 at 11:08 AM
i wish he had gone meta, instead of falling on his sword.
"that was a context-driven headline appropriate for both my audience and to the subject matter. by your attention i can see it was effective."
Posted by: jjm | April 02, 2007 at 03:44 PM