Newspaper folks are always embarrassed by bad copy editing.  I think it stems from the fact that they see themselves as differentiated from the great unwashed electronic media masses by their belonging to the world of print.  While no one would define newspapers as literature, most reporters would not be confused with the Brell boys and girls of TV.  Thus it must cause them great vexation when misspellings and poorly formed phrases leach into the bodies of stories, but also manage to make their way into headlines. 

The Sunday, December 2, 2007 issue of the Winston-Salem Journal offered a particularly egregious example of headline excrement in the "The Region" column of the Local section.  Here ’tis:

Trooper’s condition improves whose car flipped during chase

If I’d written that in the third grade I’d have been sent to the principal’s office and threatened with being held back.  Ouch.