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Astronomers have yet again found possible signs of alien life.

• sgt 2y ago
  You're not thinking like a journalist. This is a breakthrough! Alien life has been found! SETI is making contact as we speak.
  • saaaaaam 2y ago
    To be fair, there’s a big difference between journalists and headline writers! Headline writing is the art of taking something that a journalist has thought about in detail and carefully crafted and making it into something that someone with low to zero interest in the topic might want to read. Having done both, I got annoyed when headlines misrepresented what I’d written, and journalists got annoyed when I took their perfectly crafted but pedestrian articles and gave them punchy headlines in a desperate attempt to get people to read them...
    • sgt 2y ago
      Fair enough! Also, to the credit of headline writers, I have sometimes clicked on a clickbait article and learned something. If it hadn't been clickbait, I might have missed it.
      • saaaaaam 2y ago
        You've made all headline writers a little happier by saying that!