That last tweet is TECHNICALLY wrong, typically headlines are applied to stories after they've been written, edited and approved often without the editors let alone the writers getting notified or any say. I think this is an obviously stupid practice but it stems from journalistic history where the paper was literally laid out physically with prewritten pieces and the headlines decided at that point for best attention drawing. At most papers in the modern age, these decisions are all the same people, a separate headline staff is blatantly redundant and continues in this role for legacy reasons. I would suspect they likely just glanced at the title while approving the final layout on a computer, it looked "long enough" so they didn't notice the wrong word.
One reason the people on Twitter/Era/etc. who get their news almost entirely from headlines and never read the actual articles to the end are often so woefully uninformed. The purpose of headlines is to get you interested, not to inform you of anything.
One reason the people on Twitter/Era/etc. who get their news almost entirely from headlines and never read the actual articles to the end are often so woefully uninformed. The purpose of headlines is to get you interested, not to inform you of anything.
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