# Anyone seen the new Headline News? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 7, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-new-headline-news/75209 "2001-08-07T01:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-new-headline-news/75209/21 "2001-08-15T02:46:37Z")
**Spot the Typo** From a letter to [MediaNews.org](http://www.poynter.org/medianews/letters.htm): > [@](#): > > In the past week, after randomly turning the channel to Headline News I have been horrified to see typos in the news watch section. And I mean ridiculous typos, as if a 3rd grader is sitting there furiously inputting the news on his keyboard. I wish I had written them all down but I think I was too stunned to do so. Some that I recall are: Chicago’s “ **O’Hair** ” airport (this was never corrected for the 10 minutes I watched), and “ **thundar** ” storms (this was eventually corrected). > > As I said, there have been several others that I have seen and that has only been in 7 days of the new format. I think we can make a drinking game of this! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-new-headline-news/75209/22 "2001-08-15T02:59:32Z")
Louie reminds me of something with his ‘dead/minorly injured’ post. Begin hijack: Headline in ‘The Times’ one day in the mid-sixties: ‘The Nizam Of Hyderabad Is Dead’. Following day’s Times headline: ‘Nizam of Hyderabad Slightly Better’. End Hijack ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-new-headline-news/75209/23 "2001-08-15T11:19:10Z")
I can’t stand the new layout. I used to watch Headline News every day, but no longer. I actually really stopped watching when a “news” story went something like, “And don’t forget to catch a new episode of ER tonight blah blah blah.” If I want to know what’s on I’ll use TV Guide. Actually, ER wasn’t the show they mentioned, but you know what I mean; it was most likely some show on some Turner station. Anyway, at least I have one thing to look forward to - Lynne Russell posing for Playboy. Hopefully it’s not just a rumor. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-new-headline-news/75209/24 "2001-08-15T13:39:46Z")
And didn’t they fire all their actual seasoned journalists and hire perky, sexy Spokesmodels? Everyone KNOWS you can’t research or deliver news if you’re over 40 or don’t have a totally buff bod . . . ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-new-headline-news/75209/25 "2001-08-15T18:24:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*And didn’t they fire all their actual seasoned journalists and hire perky, sexy Spokesmodels? Everyone KNOWS you can’t research or deliver news if you’re over 40 or don’t have a totally buff bod . . . \*\* Chuck Roberts is still there, as well as the other dark-haired afternoon guy whose name eludes me. Something hilarious happened yesterday. The “entertainment” anchor boneheadedly flubbed nearly every third word in her report (and also said “and if that doesn’t get your goat” when she meant to say something like “float your boat”), may have slipped in a couple “likes” and “totallys” and barely got her segment finished in time. The normal anchor told her to go surf for a while but be back in time for her next segment. _snort_! I think the “tech” guy is adorable, and looks like he’s just tickled pink to be there. (“It’s my turn to talk! YAY!”) But yesterday his segments kept getting dumped for “this just in” interruptions and while the “medicine” anchor was reading his stories you could see poor tech guy back at his desk looking wistfully over his shoulder. The setup of having the anchors in a semicircle facing OUTWARD is sorta boneheaded. Whenever they introduce the next speaker or want to ask a question to one of the other anchors they have to swivel around, crane their neck backward and shout across the room. Odd. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-new-headline-news/75209/26 "2001-08-15T22:04:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Louie \* > \*\*Hearing this line from one of the reporters made me stop watching the channel: > > “This just in : A cart on a roller coaster collided with another cart and 11 people are **DEAD**!..excuse me, minorly injured” \*\* Please, please, please tell me this is a joke. -Myron [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-new-headline-news/75209.md?page=1)