By Libby Carlson
Many thanks to Marilyn Brennan for bringing up the SMDP headline issue (“DP a little too ‘cutesy’” March 28, letters). Every punny headline in poor taste, such as “City assumes the position” for an article on added city employees in the annual budget, or “Malibu passes on gas” for an article on a proposed natural gas facility, or “Head in the sand” for an article about Oxnard police officers running over a sunbather’s head and killing her while she was in town to celebrate her son’s wedding, cuts away a little piece of the paper’s credibility.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 30, 2007. Read the original PDF.