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"Bullshit curation" is bullshit Members Public

Someone has a cynicism problem [https://medium.com/@aaronloeb/you-wont-believe-what-hillary-ordered-the-dnc-to-do-to-bernie-s-brother-a344eb5bad1b#.4sjg9snuz] : > The art of good headline writing and image selection in order to get someone to click and go to a website is usually called “clickbaiting,” but I think we should call it “bullshit curation.” Oh, because clearly there’

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
audience engagement

Weekend Coffee Reading Members Public

When it’s too cold and wet to go out for the Sunday paper, just follow the links:- [The truth does not lie midway between right and wrong](http://charman-anderson.com/2010/02/23/the-truth-does-not-lie-midway-between-right-and-wrong/) – Suw deconstructs one of the persistent myths of ‘balanced’ journalism - [Second Life’s

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Adam Tinworth
Facebook

How to Write Great Web Headlines Members Public

A couple of subbing-inclined colleagues of mine here at RBI have been running a great blog for the language love called The Engine Room [http://engineroomblog.blogspot.com/] for a while now, even though one of them has finally escaped the fabled brown towers of Sutton. Now, I have even

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Adam Tinworth
headlines

pluto stripped of title, inquiry to be held Members Public

The headline on a BBC news alert that just dropped into my in-box is: > **Pluto stripped of planet status ** Did it fail a drugs test?

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Adam Tinworth
headlines

Joe Who? Members Public

[![](https://i2.wp.com/static.flickr.com/38/85221522_b8f68ccd08.jpg?w=960)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/85221522/ "photo sharing")Joe Who? [http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/85221522/], originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth [http://www.flickr.com/people/adders/]. Am I meant to know who

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Adam Tinworth
evening standard

Killer Panther On the Loose In Sydenham* Members Public

BBC NEWS | England | London | ‘Big cat’ attacks man in garden [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4370893.stm]: > Mr Holder was looking for his kitten at the bottom of his garden, which backs onto woodland, when the powerful creature attacked him. He described how a ‘big

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Adam Tinworth
headlines

Get ahead, get a Headline Members Public

A discussion else-blog about the use of aggregators to read blogs got me thinking about headline-writing. It’s something we devote a lot of time and brain-power to in the magazine world. It’s our first and best chance to “sell” the feature to the reader, and so it needs

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Adam Tinworth
aggregation