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In the tabloid tradition, a good headline must do three things: it must communicate the news; it must commit some act of wordplay; and it must trigger a certain popping of the eyes in its reader, ideally accompanied by some kind of involuntary subverbal response—a squawk, a snort, a guffaw, a gasp. On Thursday, just minutes after Jeff Bezos revealed that American Media, Inc., had threatened to publish explicit photographs of him unless he acquiesced to certain demands, tabloid-headline excellence was achieved, when HuffPost declared, on its home page, "Bezos Exposes Pecker." "Pecker," of course, referred to David Pecker, the chairman and C.E.O. of A.M.I.—the same Pecker who, during the 2016 Presidential election, facilitated a payment to a woman who had a story to tell about an affair with Donald Trump.
[...] The headline was the work of Hayley Miller, a HuffPost reporter in New York whose workday had already ended when the Bezos news came out. [...] The idea for "Bezos Exposes Pecker" came to her quickly, but she hesitated before sharing it. On one hand, she said, "I was just, like, Oh, my gosh, this is gold—got to do this." On the other hand, she considered, "Do I want to bother my colleagues with another dick pun?" In the end, she went for it. "Trusted my gut, I guess," she said.
Whitney Snyder, a HuffPost deputy editor [...] explained that this wasn't the first time the Web site's Slack channels had been peppered with Pecker puns. "We did have a bit of a rehearsal in August," he said, referring to the day that Pecker's immunity deal with federal prosecutors was reported. "We ran a headline that was 'Report: Trump Loses Pecker.' "
Previously: Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 12 2019, @09:27PM (4 children)
These penis jokes are a perfect example of the toxic masculinity that is driving women away from the old boy's club mainstream media outlets.
The patriarchy must be torn down so women can have a safe space in the media that is free from this triggering bro culture.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 12 2019, @10:20PM (2 children)
Did you somehow miss the parts where first off, this is huffpoo, the vanguard of modern militant radical feminism and secondly the creator of said headline is of the XX flavor of humanity rather than XY?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 12 2019, @11:27PM
The Anon you reply to is a male who is doing his damn best to make a joke using mimicry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2019, @07:02AM
>> implying serious OP [wikipedia.org]
Come on... Only someone with severe brain damage or mental retardation would unironically spout the same kind of arguments as the ones in the OP.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Wednesday February 13 2019, @12:33AM
Oh, don't be such a pussy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford