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> Do we really need to care about these people? Yes, because it's most people. It's most of your addressable market, whatever you're selling. It's also their s

> Do we really need to care about these people? Yes, because it's most people. It's most of your addressable market, whatever you're selling. It's also their siblings and parents and spouses. Some of mine, too. Possibly even yours. > it's very hard to write a fully informative, fully accurate headline (...) I have no doubt that the news media experience the same problem. There's no good solution for willful ignorance. This is a problem too, but it's not the problem. The problem is that a lot of the news headlines intentionally lie. The pattern is, put a purposefully misleading statement in the headline, then correct it in the article. The lie works as clickbait, but it's not its only effect: everyone in publishing knows most people don't read past headline - that's simply because they'll see 10 or 100 headlines for any single article they can afford to read. Even the non-willfully ignorant will be exposed to 99 simplistic lies for each nuanced opinion. > I really have zero sympathy for how non-readers of articles ignorantly misinterpret headlines. You can't idiot-proof the news. For any article, those "non-readers" are by far the vast majority of people exposed to it. You can't really prevent it, as it's a function of the amount of news. But you also shouldn't exploit it to sell people lies and propaganda.

lapcat 2y ago
> Yes, because it's most people. It's most of your addressable market, whatever you're selling. It's also their siblings and parents and spouses. Some of mine, too. Possibly even yours. No, this is vastly overstated. Most people in the world never saw the headline of the linked article. > The problem is that a lot of the news headlines intentionally lie. The pattern is, put a purposefully misleading statement in the headline, then correct it in the article. The headline in question did not lie. Nor did it mislead. The headline is accurate. Of course there's more to the story, which one can read in the story if one chooses. But this notion of an intentional lie just seems to come from the minds of Tesla apologists and not from any reality outside their minds. I disagree entirely with the notion. Here's a question: how would you rewrite the headline? How about "Cybertruck’s Many Safety Defects Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles"? Would you prefer that?

lapcat 2y ago

> Yes, because it's most people. It's most of your addressable market, whatever you're selling. It's also their siblings and parents and spouses. Some of mine, too. Possibly even yours. No, this is vastly overstated. Most people in the world never saw the headline of the linked article. > The problem is that a lot of the news headlines intentionally lie. The pattern is, put a purposefully misleading statement in the headline, then correct it in the article. The headline in question did not lie. Nor did it mislead. The headline is accurate. Of course there's more to the story, which one can read in the story if one chooses. But this notion of an intentional lie just seems to come from the minds of Tesla apologists and not from any reality outside their minds. I disagree entirely with the notion. Here's a question: how would you rewrite the headline? How about "Cybertruck’s Many Safety Defects Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles"? Would you prefer that?