A man, a plan, a decorated van
Atop a story about an elderly gent whose early 80s van was decorated with the names of his grandchildren and stickers from locations he and his wife visited. Another one, which received some comment, was:
Sweating to improve
It was a label-type headline, on a centerpiece about schools in the Tampa area that were doing poorly on the big state test (the Florida Coomprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT) and were, as I said, sweating to improve.
Of the two headlines, I think the first is clearly the best. Several other editors commented to me about it as well. Yet my superiors mentioned the second. Curious.
This is the archived edition of a blog kept from Nov. 24, 2002, to
Feb. 29, 2004, by Clay Wirestone.
The original description: "From the overstuffed mind of writer,
editor, cartoonist and crank Clay McCuistion comes a blog full of
-- well -- stuff. And things."
Thursday, December 5, 2002
Editing Bits
Now it's time for the semi-annual, somewhat regular "Ramblings from a Copy Editor" feature. Today, I'll share a couple of my recent efforts in the headline-writing deapartment (Ooh! Ahh!). Here's a head I was pleased with: