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Write Your Own Headline For 'Balloon Boy' Story
Headlines about the recent balloon hoax dominated television and print over the past week. The Columbia Journalism Review's Megan Garber talks about some of the headlines she imagined various outlets would use to cover the balloon hoax story.
Source: NPR
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