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Ceefax was a great example of quality sub-editing - every headline was exactly the same length, but they generally sounded natural and communicated plenty of in
by matthewowen 14y ago
Ceefax was a great example of quality sub-editing - every headline was exactly the same length, but they generally sounded natural and communicated plenty of information
- robmil 14y agoThese restrictions fed into the website, too — hence every BBC News article having a very short lede paragraph. The headlines' noun-heavy wording also helped spawn the concept of "crash blossoms" — syntactically ambiguous headlines that had amusing alternate readings: http://www.crashblossoms.com/ http://www.crashblossoms.com/