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Yet another dumb Chron headline

by Matt Bramanti · 01/03/2006 11:13 am

This one is a doozy:

Classrooms thinner than usual on New Year’s Day

Maybe I’m crazy, but aren’t classrooms always empty on New Year’s Day? Besides, the story doesn’t even talk about attendance on New Year’s Day. It talks about attendance on January 2. A better headline could be one of the following:

With classes in session, HISD students take day off
Pupils take holiday despite classes
HISD absenteeism high on first school day of ‘06

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9 Responses to “Yet another dumb Chron headline”

Willie on January 3rd, 2006 at 11:19 am

Who proofs their stuff? Or is supposed to?
headshaker on January 3rd, 2006 at 11:30 am

I know where all those kids not going to school are: Proofreading for The Chronicle!
Wino on January 3rd, 2006 at 12:46 pm

I think the Chronic-Lies use that random word generator for their headlines, unless it’s about DeLay… then they have a different generator with only negative words in its database.
Boxie0406 on January 3rd, 2006 at 1:15 pm

Maybe they assumed, as did one of our employees, that Monday was a holiday.

My question is…why was it a holiday?

Our customers were happy as clams we were answering the phone…we got caught up on a lot of work….it was great, except for the part about our driver taking the day off and leaving us short handed.

I’m still pretty miffed about that.
little mikey on January 3rd, 2006 at 2:19 pm

They also used the term “hunkered down” in the article, which is verboten in 2006.
headshaker on January 3rd, 2006 at 3:25 pm

#4 LOL I know I was out of town and called my office yesterday and no one was there. Didn’t know we had the day off! And I own the company!
Wino on January 3rd, 2006 at 9:26 pm

You’ve GOT to check the Chron’s lead article and tease line… about 5 minutes ago its teaser said, “Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who had ties to former House majority leader Tom DeLay of Sugar Land, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion charges.”

Why do I begin to think that “bias” is really a new word meaning “possessing a second sphincter, one above the neck,” when it comes to the Chron?
left-2-right on January 4th, 2006 at 4:34 am

That headline implies that classrooms are always thin. Now I’m REALLY confused…
ubu on January 4th, 2006 at 10:53 am

But I thought our schoolkids had an obesity problem?

PS: little mikey — where do you get the list of verbotten terms for 2006? I need to make sure I use them all.