Beat The Press Video: When Headlines Distract From The Story

273 views · Published 11 July 2014 · 4:39 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: GBH News · 2014 · News & Politics

Watch on YouTube

There's a fine art to writing great headlines: you've got to be punchy and provocative. And that's what a writer at a small Manhattan newspaper says he was trying to do by dropping an N-bomb, only to have it blow up in his face.

More from this channel