It’s time for another installment of roll-your-eyes news headlines.

The following news headlines are real. Some I heard on the radio; some I found online.

KSL Radio
“Coming up next . . . the high priced call girl who ruined Eliot Spitzer’s political career.”

  • Are you serious? Poor, poor Spitzer. Somebody should have warned him about this one.

After shrine vandalized, questions arise about LDS missionary training
“…events in Colorado continue to raise questions about whether Mormon missionaries receive sufficient training in cultural sensitivity before entering the mission field.”

  • No questions “arise” in the actual story.
  • The only person “asking questions” about missionary training is the journalist.
  • No one is quoted in this story with “questions” about sufficient cultural training before entering the mission field.
  • Obviously these missionaries weren’t thinking.
  • This story is sensationalism.
  • p.s. I’m a former missionary myself.

Desperate owners burn down their homes (via CNN)
Uh, hem. It’s called arson not desperation.