• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Damn. I’m taking stock of everything we’ve lost in the headline:

    • no reference to “slammed,” “burned,” or other intense attack words
    • accurate summary of the situation
    • nothing overstated
    • no key details left out
    • isn’t a listicle
    • nothing inviting the reader to see more by promising the rest of the headline in the article, none of that saved-you-a-click shit

    My god, this might actually be good honest journalism!

    • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases.

      So crappy journalism.

      Edit Apparently a lo of people have mentioned this here. I simply didn’t read far enough.

      • tal@lemmy.today
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        1 hour ago

        They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases.

        So crappy journalism.

        I’m starting to think that link aggregators like the Threadiverse software and Reddit should keep a log of headlines, or at least headlines that they see, because it’s a real issue for discussion on those sites. Like, maybe check and update at a geometrically-increasing interval (at submission time, after 1 hour, after 2 hours, after 4 hours, after 8 hours, etc).