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 are simply lazy, or reflect the biases of the newsroom or person(s) in charge of managing RSS feeds and social media postings.
The examples here from last week mostly fall in the latter category.
NPR and OJ Simpson
There’s a lot to unpack with taking that spin on the death of OJ Simpson. What stuck out to me, however, is not the glaring omission of what OJ Simpson was most famous for, but that NPR actually included the killings in the actual headline, but it got cut from the social media posts.
Simpson was also a convicted felon, though not for murder. To gloss over the brutality that most Americans know OJ for is lie by omission.
The New Y…
