Modern headline writers cede nothing to the past.
Having said that, though, it's the exception that proves the rule, containing as it does a semblance of wit and a hoary old pun, two essential ingredients of any great modern headline.
So, this morning, newspapers are bedecked in post-modern headlines that speak to the inability of reporters to grapple with objective reality.
Though I don't suppose we will see a "May pledges to bring back secondary moderns" headline in the Telegraph, or hear it shouted from the podium at the Tory party conference.
Might Wallace Stevens's beautifully glancing "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" be the surprisingly high-culture ur-text of all modern listicle headlines?
Helped along by one of the great modern magazine headlines, the piece became a canonical archetype of the so-called New Journalism — nonfiction conceived and written in the manner of fiction, with fully rendered scenes, extended conversations and plainly subjective depictions of mood.
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, with their mass-circulation dailies of the 1870's, gave us the compressed urgency of the modern newspaper headline.
On November 8, Christie's New York will hold an evening sale of Impressionist and modern works headlined by this "Blue Period" Picasso, Angel Fernández de Soto.
Future Past News displays that found-footage on a browser, while an accompanying app, developed by Ziulkoski, unlocks second-screen AR content contrasting the 1937 news with modern-day headlines.
These are just some of the lists that the comic strip "XKCD" recently joked would result from retrofitting the twentieth century's most newsworthy events with modern, Internet-style headlines.
