Weekend fun with headlines (updated)

We sometimes wonder if any grownups oversee the Chronicle on the weekends.

Earlier, the site posted a story with the following sub-headline (and page title):

NRA fights efforts to keep terror suspects from buying firearms

Now, the sub-headline has been been changed to the following:

NRA fights closing loopholes, even if it means terror suspects can still buy guns

The second headline is an improvement. Some acknowledgement that the first headline was problematic would be better.

Amusingly, the website has posted the following coverage of today’s close to the NRA convention:

NRA loved just about everything: Panel on last day takes parting shot at major media

Hard to believe that last, isn’t it?

UPDATE: The Chronicle editorialists are unintentionally hilarious responding to the slams from the NRA. Here’s the title of the editorial:

Ready on the right: Speakers at the NRA convention complained of widespread media bias but largely failed to provide a contrary example of reason and facts.

And here’s a line in the editorial:

Just as negative press coverage of America’s gun culture rallied gun enthusiasts to their cause, unrelieved, extremist hostility is more likely to erode the NRA’s hard-won political victories than to secure them.

Unrelieved, extremist hostility? Nice job, editorial idealists. Sometimes you just make it too easy.

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