August 09, 2005

Adventures in Headline Writing!

Female magazines evolve to feature flabby

Who knew there were boy magazines and girl magazines!? I suppose all those loose blow-in subscription cards are their way of reproducing.

(Aside from the humor, it is a bit interesting in our incredibly sensitive age where Reuters can't seem to bring itself to call a terrorist a terrorist, that we have someone who throws out the F-bomb with such a cavalier attitude. Especially considering that the article merely states that magazine ads and articles are featuring more naturally-proportioned women, which is frankly not the same thing as being flabby.)

UPDATE: The current headline in the linked story (as of 3:41 CT) now reads: "Fashion magazines showing more body types." Apparently someone else noticed. (ABC is still carrying the older version, at least until it's sanitized.)

No matter the headline, though, the first sentence is still the same catty one as originally printed: "NEW YORK (AP) — Mixed among the pages of dazzling celebrities and rail-thin models that dominate fashion and teen magazines is a surprising sight: young women with thick thighs and flabby abs. [...]"

Posted by Terry Oglesby at August 9, 2005 02:43 PM
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