Who’s writing headlines for the AP?
Unemployment Rate Slumps to 4-Year Low
(AP) The nation’s unemployment rate dipped to a four-year low of 4.9 percent in August as companies added 169,000 jobs, a sign that the labor market continued to gain traction before Hurricane Katrina struck.
We’re lucky it didn’t go lower — that might’ve been a “crash”.
CORRECTION: Tim Graham notes that, judging from this headline’s prevalence in the media (in Business Week, The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Gate, for example), it’s likely that this headline originated with the AP. That change is reflected in the first sentence of this post, which used to read, “Who’s writing headlines for CBS News?” That question still applies, though — editors can change AP headlines.