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...man, I was all ready to get out the pitchforks in response to "bioterror" research in a public place, but it turns out it's more "fluid dynamics research pro
by justratsinacoat 10y ago
...man, I was all ready to get out the pitchforks in response to "bioterror" research in a public place, but it turns out it's more "fluid dynamics research prompted by the risk of particulate bioweapons". It's not a clickbait title, but it asymptotically approaches one.
- mtgx 10y agoIf it's written by BBC, it's probably not going to be something very damning about the U.S. government, quite the contrary.
- michaelvoz 10y agoLet us not make wide sweeping statements about the journalistic relationship between one of the world's largest news organizations and one of the world's largest nations. Seems a bit blunt.
- burkaman 10y agoThe highest profile US headline on the BBC front page right now is "US warned over high poverty by IMF", so I don't think they have a problem being critical.
- jedberg 10y agoIn case you were wondering, the author is a NYC local.
- grb423 10y agoIn journalism school we were taught that a headline should be concise and honestly convey the meaning of the story. We hadn't yet heard about the progress of clickbait.