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I wish there were an aggressively anti-clickbait news outlet that writes headlines explicitly designed to preempt and neutralize potential misunderstandings. Im
by aragonite 3y ago
I wish there were an aggressively anti-clickbait news outlet that writes headlines explicitly designed to preempt and neutralize potential misunderstandings. Imagine editors try to anticipate all kinds of ways a candidate headline might mislead the reader, and rewrite the headline to discourage those inferences — succinctly if possible, verbosely if necessary. For this particular piece such a outlet might opt for something like:
"Ex-Boeing Employee Who Reported Safety Issues in 2019 at South Carolina Facility Dies by Apparent Suicide"
or even:
"Ex-Boeing Employee Who Reported Safety Issues in 2019 at South Carolina Facility — Distinct from the 737 Max Whistleblower! — Dies by Apparent Suicide"
To be clear, I don't find the headline by The Hill ("Key Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead from Apparent Suicide") to be especially misleading or clickbaity. It's perfectly defensible against charges of intentional misleadingness. But I suspect for many readers it is part of the experience of reading this article to have a moment of realization halfway through to the effect of "Ah, so this is not about the 737 Max whistleblower I've recently read about". What a breath of fresh air it'd be to have a news outlet that immediately gives off an impression of honorableness by trying actively and aggressively to avoid misleading its reader by its headlines (rather than focus on how its headlines can be defended from charges of misleadingness)!
- xtracto 3y agohttps://www.boringreport.org/ https://www.boringreport.org/ is actually pretty good at that. I've been reading it for some time. It's LLM generated I think
- aragonite 3y agoWow, thank you! Edit: for those who, like me, missed the HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905437 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905437
- dmos62 3y agoI have it on my phone too, but its app is just horribly frustrating. I'm back to reading Google News. If you could give me a news feed chstomized for me, with LLM neutered titles and summaries, I might just pay money for that: but that feed would have to be octaves above what Google News has. Think TikTok-level of recommendation quality.
- imjonse 3y ago737 Max whistleblowers should take notice though.
- ironmagma 3y agoWhistleblowers should be in no way influenced by current events. Information wants to be free and that will never change.
- imjonse 3y agoInformation may want to be free, but most people also want to live.
- ironmagma 3y agoAmerica has historically been home to people willing to sacrifice their lives for liberty, transparency, etc. “Give me liberty or give me death” and all that.
- sparrowInHand 3y agoOne wants to have perspectives of change even in sacrifice. Cant imagine actual change with any given party or political conestellation atm
- fsflover 3y agoThey still could decide to be more careful.
- mrtksn 3y agoHow about "Ex-Boeing Employee Who Reported Safety Issues in 2019 at South Carolina Facility Dies by Apparent Suicide in the middle of formal deposition which started last week"
- 8organicbits 3y agoThat sounds like he died while in the court room while giving testimony.
- mrtksn 3y agoRight, it sounds like they were in the court room since a week and the guy couldn't take it anymore. "Ex-Boeing Employee Who Reported Safety Issues in 2019 at South Carolina Facility Dies by Apparent Suicide just before his court appearance on Saturday"
- itsdrewmiller 3y ago"middle of formal deposition for his civil retaliation case"
- throwaway81523 3y agoReddit, r/savedyouaclick
- arrowsmith 3y agoTry https://ground.news https://ground.news