The NY Post prides itself on its sex-obsessed cat lady columnists, its round-the-clock Alec Baldwin-baiting coverage, and most of all, its lurid, attention-grabbing, and sometimes often libelous headlines and front pages. The NY Post style has become so popular, they've even launched a tour bus based around it. But today, they may have broken their own formula with their longest, clunkiest headline ever: "Gospel singer suing McDonald's after she allegedly bit into piece of glass while eating chicken sandwich, which she claims ruined her voice."
The 22-word long headline is almost as long as the entire first graf, which spells out the same information—it only adds that it took place in Manhattan and singer Jacqueline Simpson is from Brooklyn. Simpson claims she bit into the piece of glass in May 2010 at a McDonald's on Broadway in the Financial District—now she has "a hoarse, rattly voice” and people mistake her for a man on the phone.
But just think of all the wasted opportunities the Post had for this headline. Below are but a few of our suggestions:
- Glass Action: Gospel Singer Sues McDonalds For Glass Sandwich
- Gospel Singer Sez McDonald's Made Her Sound Like Man
- Glass Lass: Gospel Singer Sues McDonald's For Hoarse Meal
- McDonald's Ruined Gospel Singer's Soprano: Lawsuit
- A Sharp: Gospel Singer Sues McDonald's For Glass Meal
- Glass Shocker! Un-Happy Meal Injured Brooklyn Singer, Lawsuit
- I'm Not Lovin' It: McDonald's Sued For Glass Meal
- Glassical Music: McDonald's Made Me Sound Like A Man!
- Lawsuit: Some Like It Glass
- Life's A Glass: McDonald's Sued For Glass Mouth Meal
