Headlines that don’t convey accurate information are invalid
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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Headlines can be accurate and incomplete. Headlines can be accurate and unintentionally ambiguous. A headline that conveys the totality of a situation or subject is a tweet.
Yes having read accurate and incomplete headlines — which incidentally is the best information ever gets — is a good basis for commenting on a story.
If the headlines aren’t accurate, that’s a problem.
"Best I can do is come to the comments and get my info from there"
More like hecklines because they give such heckin complete and objective information
Most of the time the article is the same length as the headline.
What even is journalism these days?
What is this BS? Are you saying I can't just formulate a hasty opinion based solely off of 5 seconds of scanning a click-baity title and completely ignore any sort of subtle nuance or delve deeper for more information? I am OUTRAGED.
Why read the article when the journalist just uses the headline for their ChatGPT prompt?
Aside from clickbait headlines subconsciously making opening links even more sus than it already is, they all just want you to go to the actual article so they can track at the very least their pagevisits for personal validation, leaving you either with misunderstandable headlines or "...and this is what happened next..."-cliffhangers.
Anyway, crossposting an article on many mediums - instead of making it on one external site and posting the link to other mediums - usually solves the problem. I'll be more likely to read the entirety of anything òn the website I'm at than I am to follow external links to the unknown website people "thought was safe enough". 😅