Headlines

Most of my time spent looking in depth at leads was during one of our assignments this week.  I did get the UFC fights this weekend and one of the first articles I saw was headlined: “How Holly Holm celebrated her life-changing KO win over Ronda Rousey.” I really like adding “life-changing” in front of KO here. I think it really gives the headline more power and intensity. I really liked this lead. Another lead I found was “She Thought She’d Won $8 million. Then the Casino Dished Out Her REAL Prize…” This particular headline was probably the biggest eye grabber for me. How cool would it be to win 8 milllion and how terrible would it be for the Casino not to pay out? This headline really got me think and I HAD to click the link before moving on. I had too many questions. I think a great headline gets you asking questions causing you to click on story.

I found a headline I didn’t like as I was writing this. “Odell Beckham had a touchdown. The NFL’s catch rule cost the Giants the game.” There are two reasons I don’t like this headline. The first reason is that I am a Giants fan, but I won’t go into that. The real reason I don’t like this headline is that it is two complete sentences and also, now that I’ve been looking at headlines, I find the periods weird. 

For my grammar mistake, I was talking to my friend about a video game that is also a card game on Facebook. He stated, "yes but the crafting is rate is good awful 5 rares for one... or something stupid" He should have said, "Yes, but the crafting rate is god awful. You get five rares for one or something stupid like that. "