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Today, some LAT editor is guilty of attaching the most inappropriately restrained headline to a sensational story. The headline in question: "Sony Pictures Exec, Wife Liable in Labor Lawsuit." The story: A Sony Picture VP James J, Jackson and his wife were found "liable for subjecting Nena Ruiz to involuntary servitude and for negligence and fraud."

Contrast with this copy from NBC 4's website: " A Santa Monica jury awarded $551,000 in compensatory damages Thursday to a Filipina immigrant who contends a Sony Pictures executive and his wife kept her as a domestic slave for a year." In fact, the LAT doesn't call Ruiz a "slave" at all in the story, preferring to soften the blow by using "indentured servant" (though they do say "she she had to sleep in a dog bed.") Hilariously, the LAT's "related story" software isn't as timid; you can see the screen cap from the story's sidebar entry to their archives at left. If they really wanted to communicate Ruiz's plight without saying the "s" word, they could've just used the super-secret Hollywood code, "assistant."