Headlines (friendship never ends)

I read a headline the other day, I can’t remember where – “girl critical after 7-storey plunge”. Critical? I’d be sodding furious. I’m sure I’d have a number of strong words to say on the matter.

I saw a another headline on digitext the other day (not teletext - its tarty red-button sister) that said “British tour operator collapses”. I was seriously expecting it to be a story about a coach driver having a heart attack in the Lake District. I did wonder why that sort of thing might be covered on teletext.

There are all sorts of ridiculous 'woman dies in fatal car crash' headlines every day in our journalistic outlets - it worries me. We trust in these people to deliver accurate and realistic news to our brains with minimal effort from our own good selves - if they can't look after the little things like the huge headlines above their copy, what hope?