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by tomjen3 1807 days ago
Old angry man rant incoming.

>comment on the title (which is often misleading)

I grew up with the understanding that in a newspaper you should be able to read the title and get to know what happen and then be able to progressively read more if you wanted more details.

When the title is not accurate enough, or is click-bait, maybe we should start there with the AI there?

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Newspapers use (used?) an inverted pyramid structure because the bottom of the article can often be cut in editing so everything fits correctly on the page. As a newspaper journalist, this is out of your control so you need to make sure that your text makes sense even if one or more paragraphs are cut from the bottom.

I suppose it helps with attention and assimilating information too.