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It's a fairly ubiquitous concept in DC. Hell, the website Zoe goes to work from in House of Cards is named after it.
by rhino369 12y ago
It's a fairly ubiquitous concept in DC. Hell, the website Zoe goes to work from in House of Cards is named after it.
- eli 12y agoHm, I'd assumed that was a reference to the newspaper/typesetting term "slugline". But maybe it's both.
- rhino369 12y agoThat might be it actually.
- ghaff 12y agoI'm not sure the "slugline" term is common for that meaning; it's typically (don't know how widely it's still used) just slug. But it's a pretty obvious and clever derived term to combine slug and headline and come up with slugline. Slug line (two words) is apparently a screenwriting term--which I didn't know.
- eli 12y agoI don't think slugline was derived from headline. On old linotype machines, the slug was literally a line of metal.
- atwebb 12y agoI'd assumed it was because they followed the trail left by politicians, but your explanation is less sticky so I'll go with that.