Crap News: special tabloid edition
Ouch readers, it's time to look at The Sun, which earlier today brought us a punning headline and an incredulous byline the likes of which I thought we just didn't get in the average newspaper in this day and age any:
Teen Aaron is wheelie great: Daredevil teenager Aaron Fotheringham performs amazing acrobatic stunts -- in a WHEELCHAIR.
Wheelie great? Do people really still use that one?
Interestingly, the actual title of the page is different from the headline, and says "Teen Aaron Fotheringham is flipping great". So this means that, possibly, at some point, editors on The Sun had a brainwave: "No! No! Stop the presses! 'Wheelie' is just so much more amusing than 'flipping', isn't it?"
A quick straw poll in the Ouch! office revealed that, no, we thought 'flipping' was rather funnier. Oh well.
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A friend of mine is a sub-editor on another of the nationals. Scarily he tells me the rest of the industry think the Sun's headlines are the dog's dangly bits....
They aspire to 'wheelie great'! No, wheelie!
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