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My reaction too, and quite a visceral one. Does this kind of lazy projection actually work to make people care about whatever journalists feel like writing abou
by rovek 9y ago
My reaction too, and quite a visceral one. Does this kind of lazy projection actually work to make people care about whatever journalists feel like writing about?
- benbreen 9y agoI didn’t realize this before I wrote some freelance journalism myself, but the author of a piece almost never writes the headline. It just seems to accrue one in the editorial process after you submit your draft, and you often don’t know what it’s called until you read the published version yourself. So criticizing a journalist for their headline is criticizing them for something they very likely had no part in.
- mindcrime 9y agoSame here... I've done some writing for Infoworld and I was typically not the one who decided the (final) title. I would, of course, send along my working title, but it quite often got changed or outright replaced. As far as I know the editor, or somebody, edits the title to be as appealing / click-worthy as possible.
- DamonHD 9y agoI never expect my headlines to survive (though the subs shouldn't use lazy annoying ones either), but I do aim to make good enough cross-heads that most of them get left as-is by the subs. \o/ In this case the headline was annoying enough that I did not read the piece at all: whose fault that is doesn't really matter. The fact that is was anti-clickbait does!