PSA: journalists aren’t supposed to put names in the headlines if the person isn’t a public figure. It’s not a matter of maliciously not giving credit
^^^as a journalist, this is something that bothers me ALL THE TIME
A friend of mine on Twitter explained this the other day, so to elaborate based on what she said: If the name is not instantly recognizable the way a public figure is, then putting the name in the headline isn’t going to bring about any sort of recognition or connection in the reader, and doesn’t do much to draw the reader into the story. But something like “local teen” does create a connection by tying the person into the community, and encourages the reader to learn more about what this local teen has done. The name will be in the article itself, after the headline has done its job at getting the reader to look into it.
It’s worth noting too that usually, according to the Inverted Pyramid writing style used for journalism where the most important information is shared first, the person’s name is usually in the first sentence of the first paragraph.
Whenever I see someone get up at arms over a headline that says “Local Teen” and the first comment is “SAY THEIR NAME” I’m always like “hey, thanks for telling every journalist present that you don’t read articles and just skim headlines.” Really makes us feel appreciated.
I think this Onion headline illustrates the point pretty well
[tumblr] ultimately winning over twitter is nice in that the competition stayed confined to the platform cultures themselves. 4chan had to elect a goddamn President to beat Something Awful.
Getting Badger to come in and out through the basement window is huge in keeping Karafuto comfortable in this cold, and I also like that if we’re both up here when he decides to go out he’ll just meow at me to open the front door again
Thinking about how for my second case I spent months pissing in a mug so I could sniff it
(To watch out for diabetes. There was obviously… some issue with generating energy from blood sugar; the classic trick for diagnosing diabetes is if the piss smells sweet, cause sugar isn’t being processed and it’s being shed in urine. Mine never did, so something else I guess.)
So it’s been pointed out that this is maybe a euphemization of the urinomancy technique of tasting the piss as sweet, which means I was just pissing in a mug and sniffing it for months for no good reason
Collecting games is expensive and impractical, so I’ve cut back on it, except when it’s something with strong personal value
that I could donate to a museum collection later on.
…which is to say that now I have a copy of the enigmatic Knights of the Crystallion.
🦄
Look at that box! The crystal stallion hatching from the egg! And it comes with a poetry book!
If you haven’t heard of Knights of the Crystallion, please see my post! It’s a mysterious, bizarre game meant to simulate the life and spiritual practices of a druid-like culture that worships a massive skeleton. It asks you to invest in a new way of life. Baffling and immense. There’s nothing else like it.
Getting Badger to come in and out through the basement window is huge in keeping Karafuto comfortable in this cold, and I also like that if we’re both up here when he decides to go out he’ll just meow at me to open the front door again
Like one of the best-for-its-length descriptions of my personality change is “my character was maxed for INT with CHA as the dump stat and then I got enough XP for two levels at once and took a ‘set CHA equal to INT’ feat”
Like one of the best-for-its-length descriptions of my personality change is “my character was maxed for INT with CHA as the dump stat and then I got enough XP for two levels at once and took a ‘set CHA equal to INT’ feat”
