Michael Jackson headlines

I don't think everyone got the Anne Bancroft memo on bad headline writing, so here's a roundup of some of today's gems on Michael Jackson.

The estate option:
Back to Neverland — San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, Philadelphia Inquirer
Return to Neverland — Columbus Dispatch
Off to Neverland, a free man — Minneapolis Star Tribune

Something in the way he moves:
Moonwalk — The Ledger of Lakeland, Fla.
Dead man moonwalking — Philadelphia Daily News
He Moonwalks — Newsday
Michael moonwalks — McAllen (Texas) Monitor
How He Walked — Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard

Stop me if you've heard this one before:
Thriller: Jackson cleared — Kansas City Star
Thriller — Times Reporter of Dover-New Philadelphia, Ohio
Verdict a thriller for Jackson, fans — Houston Chronicle
Music to his ears — Press & Sun Bulletin of Binghamton, N.Y.
Who's bad? Not Jackson — Austin American-Statesman
Beat it — LA Daily News, Miami Herald, The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette (La.), Boston Herald
He beat it — Chicago Red Eye, Wooster (Ohio) Daily Record of Wooster, Northern Virginia Daily
Jackson verdict: He 'Beat It' — Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune
(See some of these covers side by side at Newsdesigner.com.)

Playing it straight, kinda:
Not guilty — Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas Morning News, Indianapolis Star, Topeka Capital-Journal, Louisville Courier-Journal, Shreveport (La.) Times, Boston Globe, Detroit News, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Albuquerque Journal, The Oklahoman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Not Guilty Times 10 — Tampa Tribune, Tacoma News Tribune
(And the Atlanta Journal-Constitution had "Not guilty ..." nine times in an overline, with a big "Not guilty" as a hammer below, for a total of 10.)

Misery loves company:
Boy, oh boy! — NY Daily News
Boy, oh, boy! — NY Post
(See these covers side by side at Newsdesigner.com.)