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riversedge

(81,549 posts)
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 08:01 AM Apr 2025

This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it.

So few headlines say what is actually happening-as they are dumbed down!!


This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it.

This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it.

Ricky Davila (@therickydavila.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T02:33:34.718Z
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This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it. (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2025 OP
For those who need it: True Dough Apr 2025 #1
Responses were not happy with the word "Deported" bucolic_frolic Apr 2025 #2
And rightly so, since the word "deport" means to expel foreigners. flor-de-jasmim Apr 2025 #4
No due process............. Lovie777 Apr 2025 #3
apparently not 'accurate' at all stillcool Apr 2025 #5

bucolic_frolic

(55,840 posts)
2. Responses were not happy with the word "Deported"
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 08:22 AM
Apr 2025

because it implies due process. "Kidnapped" was the preferred characterization. So Rolling Stone is only part way there.

Lovie777

(23,747 posts)
3. No due process.............
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 08:25 AM
Apr 2025

kidnapping children. Some with cancer. shithole musk republicans are pure evil.

stillcool

(34,407 posts)
5. apparently not 'accurate' at all
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 10:23 AM
Apr 2025

if words matter
expelled, kidnapped, trafficked, disappeared, abducted, exiled not "deported", per the comments

This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it.

Ricky Davila (@therickydavila.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T02:33:34.718Z

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