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I've been seeing this style of headline writing for a while now, with two sentences, almost a story within a story. Is this something that has happened recently
by TrisMcC 9y ago
I've been seeing this style of headline writing for a while now, with two sentences, almost a story within a story. Is this something that has happened recently, or is it just something I didn't notice before? It feels clickbaity.
I've come across it a lot with the Washington Post. This is the first I've noticed with the New York Times.
- strictnein 9y agoIt's very clickbaity and it comes from a lot of the garbage "news" sites (Buzzfeed, et al). It's basically a loud siren stating that this article will affirm your beliefs about topic X. It's sad to see it creep into reputable news orgs, but here we are.
- dragonwriter 9y agoI don’t think it’s at all new for feature writing of this type (it's been done, I think, for decades in print.) Online, section distinctions that would segregated the kind of content to which this practice would apply are less noticeable than in print newspapers, though.