I’m sorry. I know I shouldn’t, really I do.
But I couldn’t stifle a brief smile when I read that: “Financial Times reporters will have to subedit parts of their own stories, including writing draft headlines … ‘ (Media Guardian)
I mean, just imagine some of the ‘draft’ headlines a room full of seriously-disgruntled FT journalists might pen as a cerebral yet subtle way of sticking two fingers up at the management.
It reminded me of a cutting I snipped from the bottom of a broadsheet Times front page in the days when cut and paste involved scissors and glue. The single-deck headline ran above a story in which the Archbishop of Canterbury was quoted on the subject of animal vivisection. It read: ‘Apes have souls too, says Primate’.
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