The Lower case

Headlines editors probably wish they could take back

November 5, 2015
 

Halloween is over, but its spirit lives on. In this week’s Lower case, we’re haunted by a few gruesome favorites from years past.

 

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San Francisco Chronicle, 12/15/82

 

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Brockton, Mass., Enterprise, 8/9/85

 

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The Alabama Journal, 4/4/84

 

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The Editors are the staffers of the Columbia Journalism Review.