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In reply to the discussion: Texas approves textbooks with Moses as founding father. [View all]JonLP24
(29,322 posts)48. Headline titles are more of an art
Journalists in general do this. How do you get readers? By the title.
For example I remember a title "Tiger Woods pulls out iPhone on course, causes stir" -- It was really a minor story but with his "racy texts" the article mentions it gives a perception of something far more interesting than it actually is.
"He was helping me with my putting," Mark O'Meara, another former Masters champion, said. "I had a loop in my putting stroke. He wanted to film my putting stroke."
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/tiger-woods-pulls-out-iphone-on-course-causes-stir-1.499387#ixzz3JqoRe6Jg
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My thought precisely. This is the beginning of the end of the Anglo-American-Australian Empire.
JDPriestly
Nov 2014
#23
It's all about turning folks against public schools. This will help a lot. nt
kelliekat44
Nov 2014
#7
If I was a parent who "assumed" things, I wouldn't be much of a parent at all.
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2014
#59
"The bible is a book with some beautiful poetry, a blood stained history, a wealth of obscenity..
Tierra_y_Libertad
Nov 2014
#69
The title is a little misleading: the district is teaching that the Constitution was based on
Wella
Nov 2014
#11
" The writers spent more time on a catchy title than content." < Much like this post. n/t
jtuck004
Nov 2014
#71
I'm not writing a blog or a news story; nor am I writing a title to misrepresent facts
Wella
Nov 2014
#72
Oh, sure, I bet you think George Washington crossed the Delaware all by himself?
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2014
#16
Except the First Amendment and the First Commandment say two opposite things
jberryhill
Nov 2014
#42
Fuck it, I give up. If this is true, we'Re seriously in Idiocracy territory now.
Initech
Nov 2014
#26
As liberal elites sit back and laugh, they refuse to understand how dangerous this has become
YOHABLO
Nov 2014
#53
Our textbooks are now being vetted by the people who cried when they heard there is no Santa Claus
DFW
Nov 2014
#58
It's worrying that they mention a mythical figure as having any influence at all
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2014
#80