July 6, 2006 10:24AM 

# Fun With Headlines 

By [Radley Balko](https://www.cato.org/people/radley-balko) 

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On Monday, the *LA Times* ran a fairly positive profile of Milton Friedman and his long fight to bring choice to public education. In the newspaper, the article ran under the headline, “Are Public Schools Worth the Effort?”

But check out the headline the paper’s [online editors gave the story…](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/schoolme/2006/07/a_satanic_idea.html)

![Media Name: friedman.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/download-remote-images/www.cato.org/172395922072/friedman.jpg?itok=LdjjaJ7J) 

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