Apple iPad China sales and shipments threat in name row. That's been on the BBC News website for more than twenty-four hours now, and I still can't make sense of it. As a headline, it definitely lacks a certain something. Possibly a verb.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
As a headline writer, I'd probably be more suited to a job with The Daily Star than The Daily Telegraph, but even with my limited vocabulary and penchant for puns, I think I could come up with a better headline than this...
Apple iPad China sales and shipments threat in name row. That's been on the BBC News website for more than twenty-four hours now, and I still can't make sense of it. As a headline, it definitely lacks a certain something. Possibly a verb.
Apple iPad China sales and shipments threat in name row. That's been on the BBC News website for more than twenty-four hours now, and I still can't make sense of it. As a headline, it definitely lacks a certain something. Possibly a verb.
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The DT has:
Apple threatened with China iPad ban
The Daily Star's headline on Apple ipads is
Gadget Friday: Apple iPad2 v Nintendo 3DS
Friday 25th March 2011 12:00am
which is a year out of date anyway!!
I think it should read;
Apple iPad China and ship, means threat to name row.
Innit?
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