Comment on Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’

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ramirezmike@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I studied news journalism in college and they kinda hammered in that in news journalism it’s more important to communicate information consistently and to target a wide audience than it is to make “good writing.”

There are style guides you have to follow and words like “slammed” end up getting used a lot despite not quite being accurate because they’re words that are used a lot.

The other thing is that usually the person writing the headlines isn’t the journalist… and sometimes they do a lot of versions of the same headline and when people click more because of the word slammed it ends up sticking.

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