I don’t know who started this, but I always feel frustrated when I see headline along the lines of “USA says” or “China signal”, countries are not people.

I don’t understand why don’t even the best news outlets put headlines like " Official x said this on official order on USA" Or something like that.

I really don’t understand who came up with this way of reporting where they report on officials as their country and I always thought that this is dumb.

  • @_bcron_English
    6•4 days ago

    AP style recommends <100 characters, hence stuff like this and the ubiquitous comma used in lieu of the word ‘and’, among other things.

    But the ideal headline has even less characters than that due to search engines. 100 characters are an awful lot in that regard, so <60-70 becomes even better

    Edit: didn’t take long for me to find an example for you. This is what is considered a ‘bad headline’: