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"Bullshit curation" is bullshit Paid 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’s
Weekend Coffee Reading Paid 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
How to Write Great Web Headlines Paid 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
pluto stripped of title, inquiry to be held Paid 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?
Joe Who? Paid Members Public
[](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 this person
Killer Panther On the Loose In Sydenham* Paid 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 black
Get ahead, get a Headline Paid 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
