Headline News (song) it." He later praised the way Yankovic interacted with the artists that he parodies, noting that "Weird Al goes the whole route and cultivates a relationship with the artist. Plus he gets half the earnings and that helps me make money." "Headline News" received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Lou Carlozo of the "Chicago Tribune" wrote that the song "provided savage laughs at the expense of Tonya Harding and John Bobbitt." Roch Parisien of Allmusic cited the song as one of the three stand-outs from Yankovic's second greatest hits volume, and called it a "rib-tickler". Tina Maps of "The
William Headline Navy prior to his career in journalism. He worked for Louis Harris and Associates in New York gathering polling information. CBS News in New York hired him to work on coverage of the 1964 presidential election. Headline was promoted to senior vice president and later moved to Washington in 1974 as the network's assistant bureau chief. In his years at CBS News, Headline supervised the network's coverage of political conventions, overseas presidential trips and papal visits, and was the network pool producer during President Richard Nixon's resignation. Headline was hired by CNN in 1983, and was appointed as the network's