in the last 7 days...
phil has elevated the game like Mile High Stadium with 12 comments.
beth has 11 comments and is bad to the bone like osteoporosis.
Joe is closing quickly like Circuit City with 8.
Tiffany! has the capabilities to pay the utilities with 8.
prof. fancy pants just wants something to dance to and has 5.
DirtyDanSin has 4 and is on fire like a pile of tires.
jon has 3 comments and is kicked back like italics.
Stace has only 2 and needs to step up like when the escalator is broken.Let’s say you are the editor of a weekly newsmagazine and like all magazines your circulation is dropping. What do you put on the cover this week to get people to pick it up?
why don't you share this (on facebook) or
(on twitter)?
category: a very serious question
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beth
// Jun 12, 2009 at 11:35 am
Something timely, like announcing Anna Nicole’s death or something totally made up like the invention of the home version of smell-o-vision.
Think about it. People would probably buy just out of curiosity.
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phil
// Jun 12, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Spirituality is a big seller and everyone likes success stories.
I would have a cover story about a guy in Missouri who uses the bible to pick stocks and is beating the market. The cover would show him in front of a superimposed line graph holding a bible in his hand and the caption would say “praying for growth: a new breed of Christian investors challenge stereotypes”.
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beth
// Jun 12, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Oooo! Great headline, Phil!
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Joe
// Jun 12, 2009 at 3:22 pm
The one I had that made me think of this originally was:
“Are you racist enough?”
“One fortune 500 exec doesn’t think so, hear why inside.”
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phil
// Jun 12, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Maybe a headline like
“Why read you can’t well do anymore pg 14″
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sassbot
// Jun 13, 2009 at 11:52 am
brown fat & its virtues and something truly journalistic /fact based about transsexuals. Or an 88 yo murderous racist & tons of photos of his personal effects.
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Efrem
// Jun 14, 2009 at 3:41 am
Man of the year, Crispin Glover.
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Joe
// Jun 15, 2009 at 11:03 am
Its funny because the actual Newsweek cover last week had a super zoom close up of Oprah with huge letters that say “Crazy Talk”. Thats as good or better than anything we have come up with.
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beth
// Jun 15, 2009 at 2:15 pm
haha!
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Joe
// Jun 15, 2009 at 3:43 pm
ha ha exactly!
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phil
// Jun 15, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Do they think Oprah is not going to get revenge for putting an unflattering picture of her on the cover?
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beth
// Jun 15, 2009 at 4:06 pm
No joke… someone has a death wish.
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