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Then why put it in the headline?
by valicord 2y ago
Then why put it in the headline?
- melling 2y agoMaybe if you put some effort into figuring that out, you’ll understand the world a little better For example, headlines are often not written by the writer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline
- CharlesW 2y agoBecause the job of a headline is to pique readers’ interest. Ana analogous headline would be, “Golden Age film star invented spread-spectrum communications”.
- valicord 2y ago"Golden Age film star" descriptor has fairly high information content because there are not that many film stars in the world. Just saying "heiress" without any additional qualifiers (unlike say "heiress to a large fortune" or "heiress to a throne") can literally mean any woman with known parents, so the information content is quite low, which is why it's weird to put it in the headline as if it's supposed to mean anything.
- netrus 2y agoAny educated reader can be assumed to interpret 'heiress' as 'heiress to a fortune' in this context.
- valicord 2y agoShe was a woman at Harvard in the middle of 20th century, it's already obvious that she was rich, which once again supports my point that the word "heiress" provides virtually no new information here.