There’s a fine art to writing great headlines: you’ve got to be punchy and provocative. And that’s what a writer at a small Manhattan newspaper says he was trying to do by dropping an N-bomb, only to have it blow up in his face. 

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Callie Crossley is the host of WGBH News' Under the Radar.

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Dan Kennedy is an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University.

Jon Kelleris a political analyst for WBZ.