Oh ffs
was what I uttered aloud when I read this headline on CNN: "Want healthy kids? Learn how to cook." No shit? You mean that cooking things myself might eliminate some of the preservatives and other crap that processed foods are loaded down with?

Great. Next headline should be: "Want to lose weight? Eat less and exercise more."

Apparently the standards for journalism are slipping just a tad. I'd guess that the people who find that concept to be an eye opener are the sort who'd sneeze themselves to death if it weren't for cold remedy adverts.

What headlines have you found to be shocking in the obviousness of the subject matter?
( Wanderer, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:50, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Want to get fingered? join a choir

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:12, Reply)

people aren;t very bright
the local one round here is more for surreal ones:
"rouge drugs epidemic"
"Potato Looks like Fish" (really, it was an article about a potato that looked 'exactly like a turbot')
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:13, Reply)

Got a link?
That sounds like it might actually be fun to read!
( Wanderer, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:15, Reply)

no it was years ago
we had it up on our kitchen wall in uni

"we bought a bag of potatoes, my son in law pulled one out, it was 6 inches long and looked exactly like a turbot. I couldn't believe it!"
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:16, Reply)

True this.
A professional gang of bicycle theives we nicking loads of newish bikes in Cambridge. A city with millions of the damn things. Apparantly they were chopping off the locks with huge bolt croppers and loading them into the back of a van. One night I picked up a copy of the Cambridge Evening news to find the headline, "Over 30 Cycles Stolen From City Centre". Fine. Nothing wrong with that. Then the sub title... "Police believe it to be the work of cycle theives". No shit Sherlock.
( Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:39, Reply)

I've always thought the tabloids missed a trick
when Hendrix died: why none of them ran with 'Rock Star Dies in Jimi Riddle' I shall never know.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:43, Reply)

Or when Marc Bolan carked it...
Wrap a Purple Mini Round the Old Oak Tree...
( Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:47, Reply)

'Rollin' Bolan's face all swollen'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:50, Reply)

Marc Bolan's last hit was a tree

( djtrialprice, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 17:48, Reply)