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[-] celeste@kbin.earth 16 points 1 week ago

This article is fascinating in its choice of headlines. It briefly mentions the headline quote, and then goes on to primarily talk about the number of journalists who were killed last year. It was just an article about a conference the pope spoke at, but i really thought it'd be about something else before i read it. Successful clickbait, i guess???

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

You'd think they'd lead with the journalists. Guess they think cellphones are more important.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

YOU won't BELIEVE what THIS POPE SAID about YOUR PHONE! Click here to find out how!

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I'm clicking but it won't do anything!

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe you need to buy a new mouse.

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry, i didn't have time to go back and forth with you about this. I have to go pick up a new mouse for my pc.

[-] TisI@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago

Your first mistake is writing THIS POPE, when it should've been THE POPE. That will get more people interested, because it's THE pope and not just any regular pope.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago
[-] TisI@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

We're not in space now, are we?

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Space and time, but they're sort of the same thing.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, we are. Literally. Earth is a space rock.

[-] celeste@kbin.earth 0 points 1 week ago

I wonder if there are a number of people who will always read an article if the pope is mentioned, so if he's related to a topic even a little bit, he gets to be in the headline.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Oh definitely. My grandmother was exactly like that.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This is pretty off topic, but in traditional newspaperology headlines the story writers have no say in the headline. Headline writing is a separate discipline with specialized headline writers, because you have to carefully count the character sizes to fit the headline into the space.

This traditional art changed on its head when headlines online were no longer constrained by the page layout.

this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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