The Magic of a headline
2012-06-10 at 08:00 pm
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Let us look to the Magic of the Headlines.Whether it’s one word or a sentence, there’s something about them, that triggers you to stop and look. Joy, shock, angry, disbelief, just a few to make you think ,come on now and share your INK!
“On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.”
David Ogilvy
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light turn red
and he on the move
gotta seal the deal
before they GO!
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di710smiles Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Good Evening JT Interesting blog So, true as the headline will get me to read or not Same as a poets title on ones poem Will BB
Grab ones attention as brain control giggle
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JTwho Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
see Ya then
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Bettie Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Red light
Stop wait go
Green light
Go if you please
Yellow light
Its on you
Headline News
Who got stopped
At the red light
Great Blog JT
~
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JTwho Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
selling traffic
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Great blog, JT!
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JTwho Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Thank You
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Read All About It
Headlines will grab
Those especially sad
or those that blab
Even those happy
So many sad do not tell does not paying tab
Tell when the incident ends glad
For they like to keep writing’
Getting you into, your attention for a length of time
As once end that is it
Now, one has to find another story’
One to top the others for salary and glory
Self enjoy the ones with happy endings sending
Yet, those title with shock do have to view for brain spinning
Wondering what it is or is it worth the tears and energy thinning
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JTwho Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:10 pm
half dollar down
bring in the town
now you know
all of what
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Bettie Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
Well now sister gurl you brought that news flash out amazingly grand .. Hugs
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di710smiles Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Giggle sis..I wrote too, fast off of head Reading see mistake as paying did not need the ing hummm
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Scotorum Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Very much enjoyed this thoughtful write (((Diane)))!
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Great write, Diane…i don’t waste my energy on it anymore…lol!
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Share the news
Beware
Gossip rules…..
cherie c2012
Have a good week everyone!!!!!!
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JTwho Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:16 pm
facts are back
but lies reel in
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di710smiles Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
That sizes it up giggle but, sadly true
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Bettie Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
This is great Cherie … Hope you have an awesome week as well … Hugs
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Scotorum Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 11:20 pm
You too Cherie!
RU free now?
Gossip rules
and fuels
the tools
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
Happy week to you as well, Cherie!
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And we’re so very bombarded by the headlines every day on so many levels. We can hardly avoid them. Lots of food for thought in this wonderful blog and challenge.
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JTwho Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:12 pm
THANKS
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Bettie Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
I hear every word of this Barbara girlfriend … Hugs
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Sad world it is!
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HEADLINES OF TO DAY
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Headlines
shock
But always
first thing you see
Then angry
Cuz you looked
Joy
When you git the funnies
And they aint
That funny no more
These days
News
In the makin
Disbelief
That all this kin be happen
Right here
In our own back yards
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Written By: Bettie Davis —- © June 1o , 2o12
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JTwho Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
let the truth be told
stop the selling our souls
let us all get a little bit
of life gold
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Bettie Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Gold is so cold
We be gittin old
Not much bein sold
Even more stolen
And we be out in the snow
Just freeze in our toes
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Indeed…stop selling our souls!
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Bettie Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
I so agree enough is enough at any cost
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di710smiles Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
Love this sis and JT reply..So, much as election right now ..Don`t read for it is as dog eat dog
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Bettie Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
Thank you much sister gurl happy you enjoyed
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Scotorum Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
LOL that front page is a howl! Would that it were as true of government
The NY Times slogan should be changed to: All The News That Fits Our Agenda
I once saw another version which instead of :all the news that’s fit to print,” went: “All the news that fits, we print.”
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Bettie Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 11:54 pm
Ahhhhh … Huhmmm … What ever you just said me brain fried Cant think ta night … News Flash … Fried Brains … Hugs Now
Thanks Bob 
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
All wonderful Bettie…write, graphic and video!
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Bettie Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Makes me happy that you have enjoyed this little set of here on mine Angel Love … Thank You
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Barbara_K Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Wonderfully wise.
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Bettie Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Thanks for enjoyin Barbara dear … Hugs
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Daily headlines line my head.
Trailing deadlines drag like lead.
Real headlines infest like weed,
enhance or hinder lawn of need.
Some reflect a noble creed;
some announce a dirty deed.
Did star Freddie eat a rodent?
Did he do what sane one wouldn’t?
Headlines spotlight victories
for large competing entities:
Sputnik Launched in Western sleep;
Man Lands On Moon, one giant leap.
Headline magic rustles thought:
milestones marked or come to naught;
some in a dispute are caught
or beg to ask: What hath God wrought?
Headline magic defines day
It is all in what you say.
Compact phrase to grab the eye
pull eye’s owner in to buy.
Headline magic dreams fulfill
every longing of the will.
Type it bold on your heartscreen
where its content can be seen.
Headline dream spotlights a wish
to reflect the perfect dish:
Garden peace served every day
with mounds of love as the entree.
Copyright June 10th 2012 RGD
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JTwho Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 10:44 pm
wonderfully done
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Scotorum Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
The same should be said of the MM theme and intro JT!
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Scotorum Reply:
June 10th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
And I meant to add Thank you for so saying
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JTwho Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
too kind
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Bettie Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 12:02 am
Hey Now Bob .. You nailed the heck outta that ” News Flash ” … Made ” Headline News ” For sure … Excellent … Hugs
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Scotorum Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 10:38 am
It started out to be a short 3 stanzas (((Bettie))) but then kind of took off on me
TY 
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Love it, Bob….with mounds of love as the entree!
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Barbara_K Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Amazing what power the headlines have in and over our lives. Eloquent and awesome poetry.
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I see this all the time and last year Minnesota shut down The lottery, state parks (during busy city)and lot other things to save money. but when they open up the states they that was working for state went into over time to catch up all the work that build up while state was shut down. where did they save money. they lost lottery money and money people payed for state park camping. This state needs people know what there doing, not idiots working for the state.
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Sad!
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Bettie Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Thats news for ya
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Barbara_K Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Every day the headlines are more and more shocking and unbelievable. Whew!
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JTwho Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
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Quick write…i don’t read the papers or watch tv anymore
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We have come to a time
In this day and age
Where news is controlled
As we flip page by page.
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Telling us only
What they want us to know
Truth is obscurity
That they don’t show.
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Headlines are catchers
To the glimpsing eye
That’s how they attract us
To the next big lie.
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It no longer attracts me
I won’t look their way
The headlines don’t register
Their game I won’t play.
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Bettie Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Nor I read are watch the News .. Not enough good there .. Great write Angel … Have a great Day …
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Barbara_K Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Eloquent and wise indeed. And it is all a game for sure. You are so very right. They try to manipulate our emotions and our lives.
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 11:38 pm
For sure, Barbara! Thanks so much!
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Thanks Bettie…i hear you on that! Hope your day was great!
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JTwho Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 10:37 pm
not even for
the coupons
or free delivery
to my door
I just can’t
take it
ANYMORE
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
Love it…i don’t get those as I put a stop to them at my post office box
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NEWSWORTHY . . . .
Have you heard the news?
Seen the headlines today?
I hear things aren’t exactly
going our way.
The jobs are still scarce;
the money’s still tight;
the housing market
is still giving us
oh, such a fright;
the earth is still shaking
way out of control;
and the skies are still falling;
and that’s not fun at all.
It must be the full moon,
that’s all I can say.
What else could it be
that the headlines
are telling me?
I saw it in the paper
in letters big and bold,
though I try not
to read them,
as unsettling
as they are.
So instead of dwelling
on all the bad news
that I read
in those headlines
and hear on the TV,
I do what I did this morning
and that’s this --
I seek out those places
that bring some peace
to my mind and to my heart,
that reduce at least some
of the stresses that get to me.
I go back to the gardens
and the peace that I find.
and immediately my heart
begins to settle down.
And those headlines
that seemed so important
at the time,
the news
and the images
on the TV
are put into perspective
by the time the day is done
and my attitude changed,
the headlines no longer
getting the better of me.
(c) barbara kausteklis 6-11-12
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Bettie Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Thats ‘a lotta news there girlfriend … Hugs
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Barbara_K Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Yes, for sure. Bombarded by the headlines. Thanks so much, Bettie! Hugs to you too.
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JTwho Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
inner peace can save
your mind
if your will
to send the time
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Angel Love Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 11:44 pm
That is why I turned the tv off and stopped reading the papers…it is more about controlling our thoughts than any real news. Great write, Barbara!
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