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Bad Headline Roundup

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Rebekah Jones
Apr 15, 2024
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Social media changed the way news departments write headlines.

With more characters and space, you would hope the news could provide more detail and clarity on social media.

Somehow, we often see the opposite.

This phenomena has been called “click bait”— a tweet or post meant to draw engagement (clicks) by being outrageous, obtuse or ambiguous. Others ar…

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