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Worst Headline Ever

Whenever you think The New York Post's headlines (or the rest of it, as a matter of fact) can't get any worse, they go and surprise you.
 
Never beat this:
 

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The headline would be more appropriate to Bobby Brown/Whitney Houston.
 
The headline struck me as quite tasteful and appropriate.

Now if you'll kindly excuse me, I have to go watch some highly cultural presentations, "Kingpin" and "Team America: World Police."
 
I recall an NY Daily News headline from sometime in 1986, the day after the City Council voted to extend non-discrimination protection to gays, and Congress voted to cut off aid to the Contras:

GAYS YES
CONTRAS NO

I was at a protest rally the next day and hundreds were waving the newspaper for a placard.
 
The above are all classic Post but they can't beat my favorite headline.

The story: sometime in 2001, a gang of ghouls was convicted for selling fake ash as Ground Zero ash to the loved ones of the victims of 9/11, prompting the city to distribute real ash in custom made urns to the victims.

The Post headline: "ASH HOLES!"
 
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This is the best British tabloid headline ever (click for details):


 
My favourite headline is from The Independent, the day after Mike Tyson was beaten by Evander Holyfield in one of the biggest upsets in the history of boxing. There was a photo of Tyson on the canvas looking shellshocked and exhausted and underneath that was the headline:

INFAMOUS PUGILIST SUFFERS UNEXPECTED REVERSAL

Well, I liked it!
 
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This is the best British tabloid headline ever (click for details):


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This paragraph from the link stood out. What an appropriate name this gardener has:

In 1994 Freddie Starr was again the subject of tabloid newspaper attention in Britain. Thousands of pounds worth of jewellery went missing from Starr's home where a man named Robin Coxhead worked as a gardener, and Coxhead was suspected of stealing it. When questioned by the police Coxhead, who was homosexual, claimed to have given oral sex to Starr over a period of five years, and that the jewellery had been given to him as a reward. The case went to court and Coxhead was discredited when he was unable to state whether Starr's penis was circumcised or uncircumcised. Coxhead was found guilty and sentenced to 15 months in prison in 1995.
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I hate to admit I chuckled when I read it. Clever, but very insensative.

I hope Fidelio sees this thread and posts the A-JC cover he saved from Nov. 23, 1963 with a banner headling and a photo of a street sweeper with what appears to be a manaquin upended in his trash can. Now that was wrong.
 
I always found this one (indeed this whole article) particularly repugnant:
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