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[–] 73 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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!

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months 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).

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