Not so much the stories themselves, but what is the most famous headline, where the newspaper itself is the iconic image? I nominate:
Chicago (Daily) Tribune: Dewey Defeats Truman
NY Daily News: Ford to City: Drop Dead
And for local flavor:
I always liked “Headless Body Found in Topless Bar,” from the New York Post, although I don’t know if I can find an image of the paper.
Perhaps the most famous British one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b5/Freddiehamster.jpg/180px-Freddiehamster.jpg
Am I sensing a Sun bias here? Eeek. http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/programmes_enl_1146754853/img/1.jpg
Bat Boy Found In Cave!
FOG IN CHANNEL; CONTINENT ISOLATED
(I doubt that one’s true, but it’s funny regardless.)
Isn’t this Sun headline rather famous?
Isn’t there a New York Times headline that declared “God is dead”? Elton John seems to think there was, anyway, which probably makes it pretty famous.
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Isn’t there a New York Times headline that declared “God is dead”? Elton John seems to think there was, anyway, which probably makes it pretty famous.
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There was a Time magazine cover that asked the question, “Is God Dead?”, but I’m not finding an actual NYT headline for it. I think Sir Elton was just extemporizing, better known to layman as “making shit up”.
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Isn’t there a New York Times headline that declared “God is dead”? …
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Could he have been thinking about Time Magazine? That cover made it in the movie “Rosemary’s Baby.”
In the lobby of the paper I used to work for ( St. Petersburg Times) are blown up versions of the papers’ most famous headlines, the most eyecatching being “Japs Surrender” (sorry, I couldn’t find a link). Not particularly funny or odd, except that I always found it interesting that the most liberal institution I’ve ever had personal involvement with would display a six foot reproduction of something with the word “Japs” on it.
They also omitted the headline they printed announcing Al Gore’s presidential victory, but who can blame them?
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I always liked “Headless Body Found in Topless Bar,” from the New York Post, although I don’t know if I can find an image of the paper.
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Here is an image of that headline.
And here is the Surrender Monkeys headline from the New York Post.
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There was a Time magazine cover that asked the question, “Is God Dead?”, but I’m not finding an actual NYT headline for it. I think Sir Elton was just extemporizing, better known to layman as “making shit up”.
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First, Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics, not Sir Elton.
And the article in question appears to be found here
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First, Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics, not Sir Elton.
And the article in question appears to be found here
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I was wrong, then.
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Honolulu Star Bulletin: WAR!
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“SIX KNOWN DEAD, 21 INJURED” :eek: :eek: :eek:
WA-
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