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by rjeli 10y ago
Except for especially insidious cases: https://m.imgur.com/UUCWStu https://m.imgur.com/UUCWStu
- tbrownaw 10y agoI don't see the issue with that. Shortened headlines are supposed to have words elided (so I'd read it as "[is being] paid"), and newsy stuff tends to be about now which means that "paid" as past tense doesn't make sense and it would say "pays" (like the main headline does) if she was the one paying. The sentence ordering (Melania first, Daily Mail last) is to put the thing people are most interested in at the beginning. It's not a case of dishonesty, it's a case of forgetting that most people don't usually use words that way.
- Bartweiss 10y agoI think it's an ugly example of bad headlining, though not 'fake news'. I did parse it backwards at first because so much had been elided. BBC does this constantly because their mobile news app uses such short headlines - they elide all the specifiers and half the verbs, to the point where what's left is word salad with a handful of key nouns. Annoyingly often, it's necessary to read a piece just to see what the headline meant in the first place.