Down to a fine art

摘要

Working for the AJ, Astragal understands the hellish pressure of the printing press. But the daily publication MIPIM News set new standards with its newsbites. As highlighted in a talk by Paul Finch, the headlines were chock-a-block and jam-packed full of cliches. Gems included: 'Dijon shows how it can cut the mustard'- accompanied by a picture of the city's trams captioned 'Dijon's trams are on the right track'- and a story about the Venetian waterfront carried the eye-popping headline 'Venice floats new schemes'. Ho ho ho.