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minus-squarepeteyestee@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·edit-23 days agoI hate “news” like this… It’s a waste of time. One person on Twitter saying something turns into “Twitter says…” Politician say x in normal pointless conversation and it turns into “democrats/politicians say…” And people feverishly eat it up. Our society is fucked.
minus-squareWojwo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 days agoI think the people should boycott all headlines with slams in the title. Unless it’s about professional wrestling.
minus-squareDoug Holland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoAlso blasts, blisters, bombshell, claps back, epic self-own, goes viral, melts down, mind-blowing, mocks, rages, rips, scoop, shocking, skewers, slams, staggering, stuns, and trolls.
minus-squareAlloi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoare you suggesting we boycott my boss, Rog, king of the slams?
minus-squarecantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoHe was totally slammed, like the headline said.
minus-squaresushibowl@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoSeriously though. Weasel words. If journalists adopted even 20% of Wikipedia’s manual of style, news would improve by orders of magnitude.
I hate “news” like this… It’s a waste of time.
One person on Twitter saying something turns into “Twitter says…”
Politician say x in normal pointless conversation and it turns into “democrats/politicians say…”
And people feverishly eat it up.
Our society is fucked.
I think the people should boycott all headlines with slams in the title. Unless it’s about professional wrestling.
Also blasts, blisters, bombshell, claps back, epic self-own, goes viral, melts down, mind-blowing, mocks, rages, rips, scoop, shocking, skewers, slams, staggering, stuns, and trolls.
are you suggesting we boycott my boss, Rog, king of the slams?
He was totally slammed, like the headline said.
Seriously though. Weasel words. If journalists adopted even 20% of Wikipedia’s manual of style, news would improve by orders of magnitude.