Headlines are designed to get you to click. They aren’t designed to inform. If people don’t like how headlines are designed, they should find other news sources
How do you report on an email implying that Vladimir Putin has photo evidence of the President of the United States fellating someone without sounding sensationalist? What words would make that not sound like satire?
Yeah those are are still pretty sensationalist, and that's with leaving out the bulk of the content. How do you divulge the content without sounding like satire? Anyone can make a crazy story sound sane by just not telling the crazy parts. You gotta tell the crazy parts too.
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jaybone@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 290d
Welcome to 2025. We’re almost at December.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 290d
This year has been the longest 5 years of my life
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 290d
By the time this is all over we will all be old and grey. Or dead.
randomblock1@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 291d
!nottheonion@lemmy.world
TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 290d
Every time I read a headline I wonder if the CIA wrote it.
hamid@crazypeople.online · 1 pts · 289d
The US is just doing to the US what the US has been doing to the rest of the world for decades. Welcome to the club I guess
zephiriz@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 290d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · -19 pts · 291d
You need to read news without sensationalism
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 291d
I don't think that's the issue.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 15 pts · 291d
Do you... do you think that's the current pressing issue
that current events are being 'overblown'?
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · -9 pts · 290d
Headlines are designed to get you to click. They aren’t designed to inform. If people don’t like how headlines are designed, they should find other news sources
PugJesus@piefed.social · 9 pts · 290d
The complaint here is not that the headline is misleading; the complaint here is that the headline is true and reality is fucked.
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · -8 pts · 290d
The headlines are specifically designed with words that make people panic. The same things can be said without doing that and still express concern.
You just want to disagree with me. But that’s okay, I have all day and I’ll die on this hill.
Kalothar@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 290d
Okay, we have moved passed the headline in this part of the conversation.
What we are saying is the reality behind the headlines is nearly indistinguishable from satire.
You can die on whatever hill you want, but that’s not he hill we are even talking about.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 290d
How do you report on an email implying that Vladimir Putin has photo evidence of the President of the United States fellating someone without sounding sensationalist? What words would make that not sound like satire?
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 290d
Email Alleges That Russian President Possesses Compromising Photograph of U.S. President
Leaked Email Claims Putin Has Potentially Compromising Image of U.S. President
Correspondence Suggests Russian Leader Holds Sensitive Photo Involving U.S. President
Document Indicates Russia May Possess Material Described as Compromising to U.S. President
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 290d
Yeah those are are still pretty sensationalist, and that's with leaving out the bulk of the content. How do you divulge the content without sounding like satire? Anyone can make a crazy story sound sane by just not telling the crazy parts. You gotta tell the crazy parts too.