‘Blackpool woman accessed child abuse images in hospital bed’.
It’s a good headline, in that it catches your attention.
But there are two things making it an effective headline, at least in the sense that it gets attention. One is the notion of someone looking at child porn in a hospital – that’s a shocking thing, and as they sometimes say in American journalism schools, ‘news is a surprise.
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