Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs

EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• exanime@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The headline is stupid … It basically says Geek Squad is laid off after getting laid off

  Journalism is basically beyond saving at this point…

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  • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Journalism is basically beyond saving at this point…

    I mean, it’s basically a no name website. It’s not like this is a NYTimes, AP, or The Atlantic headline.

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    • hansl@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Overreacting and dramatization is what social media trained us to do, so I’ll go ahead and answer that question with… no, probably not. Or as social media taught me; I SLAM your comment DOWN!

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      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I clap back at your slamming of the previous poster’s comment.

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    • exanime@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess what I’m really asking is, it’s a bad headline from a small publisher (it’s surely happened many many times for decades), can’t we leave it at that without the dramatization?

      If this were an isolated example, sure… But go to all those sources you mentioned and tell me how many times some “slammed” someone else…

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      • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But go to all those sources you mentioned and tell me how many times some “slammed” someone else

        Okay … Let’s google it … I’m open to be being bias checked; The Atlantic and NY Times.

        Some “The Atlantic” examples:

        • “Boston Fire Chief Slammed Over His Response to Marathon Bombing”
        • “Northeast Slammed by Blizzard”
        • “The Storm Heard Round the World: How Sandy Slammed Global Aviation”
        • “This is What 400 Pounds of Sumo Wrestler Getting Body-Slammed Looks Like”
        • “HuffPo’s Sex Strategy Slammed”
        • “Republicans Slammed for Recruiting ‘Hicky’ Actors for West Virginia Ad”
        • “Everyone’s Getting ‘Slammed’ This Week”

        Some “NYTimes” examples:

        • “A Window Into Chinese Government Has Now Slammed Shut”
        • “Trump Slammed the W.H.O. Over Coronavirus. He’s Not Alone.”
        • “Regional Banks Slammed by Fear of a Broader Financial Crisis”
        • “How Mink, Like Humans, Were Slammed by the Coronavirus”

        What’s your point exactly? These aren’t (IMO) atrocious headlines; I suppose a few could be more informative for sure but also these are like ~1 per year.

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  • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. They wanted to highlight the dumb “sleeper” line for some reason, even though it’s probably the least newsworthy part of the message. “Geek Squad faces huge layoffs, members call it ‘going sleeper’” is much clearer but still a waste of time and space.

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    • exanime@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      By today’s journalism standards, you are ready for Chief Editor!

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      • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m very good at wasting time and space effectively.

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• bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It says that in the article

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  • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And we all know everybody’s great at reading the article.

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  • Fal@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Headlines aren’t supposed to be deep cuts to geeksquad lingo that’s only explained in the body.

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