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
Headline Headline The headline is the text indicating the nature of the article below it. The large type "front page headline" did not come into use until the late 19th century when increased competition between newspapers led to the use of attention-getting headlines. It is sometimes termed a news "hed", a deliberate misspelling that dates from production flow during hot type days, to notify the composing room that a written note from an editor concerned a headline and should not be set in type. Headlines in English often use a set of grammatical rules known as headlinese, designed to meet stringent