Headline News (song) the issues. While the original song's verses each told the story of three abnormal children, each verse of "Headline News" tells the story of three famous tabloid stories of 1993 and 1994: the American delinquent Michael Fay being caned in Singapore, figure skater Tonya Harding's ex-husband attacking her rival Nancy Kerrigan, and Lorena Bobbitt severing her husband's penis with a knife. (In this last verse, Yankovic substitutes the term "penis" with euphemisms like "wiener" and "Mr. Happy".) Yankovic later joked that he "wanted to write a song about these people because [he didn't] think they're getting quite enough media attention",
Nick Watt (CNN reporter) Nick Watt (CNN reporter) Nick Watt is a Los Angeles, California based reporter for CNN and was a news program producer and correspondent at ABC News for 20 years. He was also a travel show host for a season of "Watts World" on the Travel Channel. He previously worked for ABC News fo 20 years before joining CNN. He is Scottish. Watt won an Emmy Award for his reporting from Fallujah, Iraq in 2004. Watt worked at ABC’s London bureau beginning in 1997 as a desk assistant and tape librarian and spent 15 years there covering news in Iraq, Afghanistan,