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It's standard journalistic practice to put "claims X" at the end of the headline. The "action" needs to be at the front of the headline to grab attention. It's
by colejohnson66 3y ago
It's standard journalistic practice to put "claims X" at the end of the headline. The "action" needs to be at the front of the headline to grab attention. It's not necessarily wrong to do so, but it could easily be avoided by titling as "Y claims So And So did X".
The real issue is people not even reading the stories and only taking headlines as gospel. A bit of forgetfulness and telephone (the game) later and "So and so did X, Y claims" turns into "So and so did X".
- jasonlotito 3y agoYeah, I was familiar with the practice to put "claims X" at the end, I just didn't make that clear. My question really revolves around: should that be changed? I wonder if this is a result of limited-character lengths on aggregators. It's easy to chop the end off of a headline and have it still make sense. Couple that with people reading only the first part of the headline and possibly ignoring the second part. I think your suggestion moving to attribution to the front would be helpful for headlines online. Maybe even have the title of the page have the attribution prepended to handle scrapers.