The Headline Game – 1/31/07
Real life or parody? Sometimes, I can’t tell the difference anymore. That’s when it’s time for the Headline Game.
Below are two headlines from CNN.com and two headlines from The Onion. Can you spot which are the real headlines and which are the fakes?
1. Ailing Castro begins 750,000 last words
2. Lasers and radars pack cars in robotic garage
3. Pentagon halts sales of F-14 parts
4. White House quietly retracts entire State of the Union address
Note: CNN Headlines taken from front page of CNN.com; headline of actual story may differ. Capitalization on the Onion headlines changed to match CNN.
Answers: Story 1, Story 2, Story 3, Story 4
How did you do?
January 31st, 2007 at 10:25 am
Okay, that’s better: four for four. I think I’m good as long as they’re not weather-related, though the Castro one seems at least marginally believable . . .
January 31st, 2007 at 11:55 am
The Castro headline sounds like it might be about a book deal. I probably would have thought that one real and pegged the idea of the Pentagon selling F-14 parts as straight out of The Onion.
And actually, if you read the rest of the article, it doesn’t get any less funny. The reason they are stopping these sales is because Iran is still using the F-14. Then the article quotes a bunch of senators, much as The Onion might pretend to do, talking about how it makes sense to stop selling these F-14 parts.