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This is overly pedantic. You just need to read past the first sentence. They immediately qualify their statement. In the same font size as the headline...
by mertd 4y ago
This is overly pedantic.
You just need to read past the first sentence. They immediately qualify their statement. In the same font size as the headline...
- jxf 4y agoThe headline is deliberately designed to be more controversial than the article body is... perhaps so that one might, say, bait you into clicking it? :)
- chitowneats 4y agoIf only there was term for this. Let me sleep on it, I'll get back to you.
- elihu 4y agoIt's not overly pedantic to expect headlines to not be the exact opposite of a true statement. Contradicting the first sentence with the second sentence doesn't make the first sentence any more true.
- themitigating 4y agoSeems pretty easy to qualify their headline with one word