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Typically in the news process the copyeditor chooses or edits the title of the piece for brevity and "punch." By saying "WWII-era," the title very succinctly s

Typically in the news process the copyeditor chooses or edits the title of the piece for brevity and "punch." By saying "WWII-era," the title very succinctly sums up the idea that "hey, there's this interesting airplane that's been in the works alongside the very expensive F-35, but it's actually much cheaper and much less technologically advanced, but actually much better suited for the war in Afghanistan--and it resembles the types of fighter planes that you've seen in 'Pearl Harbor' and 'Saving Private Ryan'." The title is meant to convey as much information to the audience (a general, non-technical audience) in as few words as possible, and it mostly does its job. If you read the article, it's clear that the authors understand the difference.

reitoei 11y ago
I think dingaling's point is that the headline is clickbait.
- Lawtonfogle 11y ago
  The editor was trying to convey as much info within the given length as they could. They didn't realize that it would result in a title that was also clickbait. Remember, never blame malice where stupidity will suffice. (P.S. Of course it was click bait and purposefully done so, there is an art to creating clickbait headlines that can be defended as not being clickbait.)
  - smallape 11y ago
    Do you actually have a line of communication to the editor or are you guessing?
    - Lawtonfogle 11y ago
      Direct line of communication. But they could still be lying, so I guess I should say it was a guess. Actually, I got a psychic to get me direct access to their brain, so I'm sure they aren't lying. But they could be incorrectly remembering it. So we still can't be certain. For it to be 100% not a guess, I'm going to need to get go back in time with my time machine and have the psychic come with me, but he is saying something about how that could cause problems. So sadly we are stuck just inferring (guessing) with the information given.
- surge 11y ago
  Headlines have been written to grab your immediate attention and want to read further since newspapers have been in print. If that makes it "clickbait", its usually only clickbait when the headline over promises or leads with some climatic note and under delivers, like "That one weird trick to losing weight" turns out its called limiting calorie consumption and exercise or "A guy was walking down the street, you won't believe what happens next", which turns out I do and what happens is only mildly interesting or the buzzfeed "12 things on a list of things on how to do something, 11 of which you already know about and the 12th not being very effective"
fweespeech 11y ago
> By saying "WWII-era," the title very succinctly sums up the idea that "hey, there's this interesting airplane that's been in the works alongside the very expensive F-35, but it's actually much cheaper and much less technologically advanced, but actually much better suited for the war in Afghanistan--and it resembles the types of fighter planes that you've seen in 'Pearl Harbor' and 'Saving Private Ryan'." Yes but its inaccurate. Cold war era would get the point across just fine.
- mrob 11y ago
  I don't think "Cold war era" would get the point across. To me, "Cold war" is associated with expensive high-tech planes like the SR-71 and the B-2. I think most people would think of planes like these when you say "Cold war era".
  - dkrich 11y ago
    To say that the plane is "WWII era" when it is not, is simply incorrect. I don't understand how it would be considered acceptable practice to state something that is misleading and untrue for effect. If it is a clear exaggeration then maybe you could argue hyperbole, but I think that this is just a poorly-researched article.
    - nsxwolf 11y ago
      No way can this be considered hyperbole. It's just 100% totally wrong.

reitoei 11y ago

I think dingaling's point is that the headline is clickbait.

Lawtonfogle 11y ago
The editor was trying to convey as much info within the given length as they could. They didn't realize that it would result in a title that was also clickbait. Remember, never blame malice where stupidity will suffice. (P.S. Of course it was click bait and purposefully done so, there is an art to creating clickbait headlines that can be defended as not being clickbait.)
- smallape 11y ago
  Do you actually have a line of communication to the editor or are you guessing?
  - Lawtonfogle 11y ago
    Direct line of communication. But they could still be lying, so I guess I should say it was a guess. Actually, I got a psychic to get me direct access to their brain, so I'm sure they aren't lying. But they could be incorrectly remembering it. So we still can't be certain. For it to be 100% not a guess, I'm going to need to get go back in time with my time machine and have the psychic come with me, but he is saying something about how that could cause problems. So sadly we are stuck just inferring (guessing) with the information given.
surge 11y ago
Headlines have been written to grab your immediate attention and want to read further since newspapers have been in print. If that makes it "clickbait", its usually only clickbait when the headline over promises or leads with some climatic note and under delivers, like "That one weird trick to losing weight" turns out its called limiting calorie consumption and exercise or "A guy was walking down the street, you won't believe what happens next", which turns out I do and what happens is only mildly interesting or the buzzfeed "12 things on a list of things on how to do something, 11 of which you already know about and the 12th not being very effective"

fweespeech 11y ago

> By saying "WWII-era," the title very succinctly sums up the idea that "hey, there's this interesting airplane that's been in the works alongside the very expensive F-35, but it's actually much cheaper and much less technologically advanced, but actually much better suited for the war in Afghanistan--and it resembles the types of fighter planes that you've seen in 'Pearl Harbor' and 'Saving Private Ryan'." Yes but its inaccurate. Cold war era would get the point across just fine.

mrob 11y ago
I don't think "Cold war era" would get the point across. To me, "Cold war" is associated with expensive high-tech planes like the SR-71 and the B-2. I think most people would think of planes like these when you say "Cold war era".
- dkrich 11y ago
  To say that the plane is "WWII era" when it is not, is simply incorrect. I don't understand how it would be considered acceptable practice to state something that is misleading and untrue for effect. If it is a clear exaggeration then maybe you could argue hyperbole, but I think that this is just a poorly-researched article.
  - nsxwolf 11y ago
    No way can this be considered hyperbole. It's just 100% totally wrong.