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February 07, 2010 07:26 PM Small earthquake in la-la land, or, Why is Sarah Palin Smiling? by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules There is a great story about the journalist (and Communist) Claud Cockburn that while a journalist at The Times in the 1920s, he won a competition for devising the most boring headline that actually made it into the paper. His winning entry: “Small Earthquake in Chile, Not Many Dead.” According to Wikipedia, the story is [...] Click here to read the entire article » |
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