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PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 12:22 am 
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Does anyone remember the "Roasted Nuts" headline about a psychiatric hospital fire, in which no one was injured? Trentonian of New Jersey, I believe. I was just wondering, do they have a slot person, or managing editor, or anyone who approves pages there? At first I thought it was a gag when someone told me about it. Online, there's references to a copy editor apologizing for the headline, but shouldn't the headline have been rewritten in the first place by a higher-up? Or at least sent back to said copy editor for another crack at it? What's going on at the Trentonian?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:16 pm 
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Oh, I remember that one. What's going on there, basically, is they try to stake out a position somewhere between the New York Post and the Weekly World News, and it leads them into embarrassments like that one. (Another sample Trentonian hed, on a folo to a case in which someone's severed head was found: "HEAD HAD AIDS.")
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I grew up near Trenton, and actually worked in the Trenton burbs years ago. The Trentonian was a trove of hilarious heds, and the folks who worked there were proud of them.<p>I got a kick out of one of their photographers. At every perp walk, he'd yell out "HOW 'BOUT A BIG SMILE, ASSHOLE?" Oddly, that sometimes got a smile out of them.<p>I know I couldn't help laughing out loud whenever he did it. I suspect part of the strategy was to ruin TV reporters' tapes, too.
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