this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2025
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OP, you really don't want to drive traffic to the Washington Examiner.
It was this, NYPost or TimesOfIsrael having a good title. Of all of them this was the least bad article.
ABC 7 New York? Granted they updated the title not to include Miss Rachel by name, but does every headline need to be engagement bait? Especially when the alternative is fascist news?
No mention of Miss Rachel. Not a catchy headline whatsoever. Likely on purpose.
Likely because they're a local news station with reasonable journalistic integrity who expect that their readership wants to gasp read news. This attitude to me is depressing and completely ethically bankrupt – that a fascist news piece with a hyper-clickable headline is better than one that just discusses the news undramatically as it is.
A catchy headline is mandatory for news to get views. The headline of WashingtonExaminer isn't a lie either. In fact it shows what people would likely be most interested in.
That's what archive.org is for. Among other things.
Archive is not bad but I have to upload a custom thumbnail and other instances which aren't .ml often have problems viewing that thumbnail.
I'm not sure this sub has a rule that post titles must match article titles. There aren't any rules posted in the sidebar, so it's kind of just at the whims of the sole mod.
That's actually a good point I should have probably done that.
There aren’t enough lemmy users for our clicks to matter. Less than $1 worth of clicks