DID I SAY THAT??

One of the joys of blogging and writing for small, low circulation or special interest publications is that they let you write your own headlines or titles.Bigger publications have editors who read your stuff and come up with their paraphrase of what they think you said. Even if you write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper and pop off about something that bugs you, their editor will come up with a headline that will amaze you. It might leave you slapping your forehead and thinking, "Is that what I said?" It would be interesting to choose a favorite syndicated columnist, find out what papers he or she appears in, and look up the headlines for a given article in several of them.