By Michael J.W. StickingsThis was the headline from the AFP yesterday:Palin steps onto world stage with diplomatic meetingsUm, how exactly is it stepping onto the world stage to sit down for pre-arranged meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, meetings purposely designed by the McCain campaign to make it seem as if their little neophyte is seriously ...

Headline were a 2-Tone era, 6-piece ska band signed to Virgin Records who ... fractured the friendship of the south London posse:"Headline was never about money, just the excitement. We had an excellent buzz. It was a fantastic ... Richard Branson because I felt we'd let him down in some way. It was upsetting." A slimmer Headline hobbled on, and released their second single without Winston and Michael ...

... State -- even calling it a "crisis" -- when there was really only a small increase. The headline would cause the casual reader to assume that the world is falling ... percent in 25 New York counties. It is a shocking headline, to be sure, screaming that unemployment "leaps 20 percent ... previously estimated. So, congratulations to Reuters for the most misleading headline of the day. (Image credit: NBC 25 ...

... main determinant of health and life expectancy? Whatever the reason, the effect is that the lazy headline scanner - i.e., pretty well all of us readers - is left with a vague impression that ... real story is that an Arab teenager was murdered by racists. Not that you could guess from the headline. It's not that these headlines are deliberately targeted at stirring up the bigots. (The Daily Mail et ...

... it accurately describes how Wagner feels that his own career with the Mets is over. But what the headline actually says is "Wagner said Mets' career is over," which drastically changes the meaning. The ... your career is over--so says your own closer (well, in conjunction with whatever writer misapostrophized the headline). I firmly believe "career" is a euphemism for "season." And on that note, I ...

... we talking about 9 homes being sold at auction?So the Times makes a heck of headline, but there is nothing behind it. This reeks of sensationalism in my book. You could also see it as borderline irresponsible. Then again, if you took ... , credit crisis, Bear Stearns, Wall St. layoffs, weak economy, etc.) perhaps the headline should have been:"Remarkably, Manhattan Foreclosures Virtually Non-Existent"