Friday, 4 December 2009

Whose (Head)Line Is It Anyway?

Like any good public relations officer (PRO), I'm a hawk for a golden headline. Yet unlike other PROs, the child within me means I regularly cut out the real belters for my own office amusement.
I thought the time had finally come for you to get a little non-verbal window into my working life:



Whilst 'Absolute response to 'twatgate'' continues to adorn the geriatric PC you'll spy (and baffle most members of staff), strangely enough the girls in the office objected to 'I DIDN'T RAPE JORDAN'. Of course, the former is from PR Week and the latter from The Mirror. The whole headline obsession was sparked whilst editing my university newspaper, where I took inspiration from Britain's number one local-rag-with-golden-headlines The Argus.

But when it comes to the nationals, one publication stands head and shoulders above the sub-editing competition, providing this gem with which I instantly adorned Bjorn's office:

Cleopatra of course believes it's more like a PhD, but I just thanked The Daily Mail for providing myself and Trophy_Wife with the shot above that now pops up on our phones whenever Bjorn calls for our advice on his latest cretinous scheme.