How to confuse the reader

How to confuse the reader

The output of the English Empire’s free and fearless press has in recent decades undergone several changes: and so it should; they are working with something that is dynamic and ever-changing – language.

One of the most recent of these changes appears to be to attempt to get all the salient facts of a story crammed into its headline. This could have the saving grace of readers being spared plodding through paragraphs of more dreadful prose.

Which brings us neatly to yesterday’s Daily Mail and the fine example below of an overstuffed headline.

Headline reads: Christine Lampard is left in hysterics as Dr Amir Khan's mother calls him while he's live on Lorraine... before a fly shoots up his nose as he drinks Victoria Beckham 'moon water'

Are you sure you didn’t leave out any minor detail that could still have been crammed into the headline, Mail Online? 😉

Author: Steve Woods

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