Is it just me, or are the headlines on the main page of CNN.com often surprisingly shoddy? "Britney Spears Ends Pregnancy Speculation" strikes me as just about the worst possible headline for a "Britney is pregnant!" article. The most offensive example, however, is a headline from earlier this year: "Federal Judge Finds 2 Bodies in Her Home". You have to read down to the third paragraph before learning that the bodies were those of the judge's mother and husband.

To my mind, these headlines are second only to the famous headline that the New York Times used to trumpet the Gary Hart and Donna Rice scandal. Ready for it? It was "Hart and Paper in Dispute Over Article."