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Worth noting that someone else usually writes the headline for the articles, not the journalist / the author of an article.
by jonathanwallace 4y ago
Worth noting that someone else usually writes the headline for the articles, not the journalist / the author of an article.
- thereddaikon 4y agoOK, but that doesn't excuse things. There's a problem with journalism and its mostly about how they are incentivized and compensated. I don't know what the fix is but its clear that trust is so low, and rightfully so that journalism has largely failed as an industry at its job.
- not2b 4y agoJournalism is paid for by ads, mostly. For online journalism, unless people click there is no money to pay the producers. Hence clickbait. This is a problem but there are worse problems.
- resters 4y agoIn my opinion the requirement that HN submissions match the article's title is quite absurd because of this phenomenon.
- bscphil 4y agoUh, that isn't the rule, for exactly that reason. > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- resters 4y agoI've seen many cases where mods revert an informative title in favor of a less informative one. Also, the idea that the title of a submission should match the title of the resulting article is quite silly, since often the article is written for a different audience and the informed HN submitter can sometimes craft a title that better summarizes to HN readers why the story is interesting / worth reading / controversial.