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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
The purpose of a headline is not to summarise an article and also not as you suggest is it written or signed off by No. 10. It's there to sell newspapers or clicks.
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Or push a narrative to the sleeping and malleable masses. You know …nudge them along.
The Nudge unit or behavioural Insights Team (look them up) were front and centre during COVID to frighten the bejesus out of everyone so they would comply with government dictact.
To think that government doesn’t have influence over media is to be naive, or ignorant.
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If additional words in a headline don't increase sales or clicks then why include them?
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Oh, I don’t know……….the truth? You know journalistic integrity, holding governments and institutions to account.
But you have just exemplified the problem………if the masses don’t care or don’t want to know the truth, then why include accurate headlines?