In a sharp break from Arkansas education officials, the Little Rock School District said in a news release it will offer AP African American Studies for credit.
In a sharp break from Arkansas education officials, the Little Rock School District said in a news release it will offer AP African American Studies for credit.
That title had to be clickbait and it got me. Here I was fully believing segregation had come back to Arkansas in some capacity.
I’m assuming you thought they were allowing a class of African Americans to graduate…?
It’s not clickbait just because you misinterpreted it.
Its not clickbait, it’s just really ambiguously worded because they omitted the word “studies”
@glimse @gullible
Misinterpretation is the fault of the presenter, not the reader.
Speak or write to your audience.
@girlfreddy
The audience is people who have been following the news. Recent events are the context that make this make perfect sense. You can take a headline from 10 years ago and it won’t make any sense without context, too.
It’s a crash blossom and intentional. Omitting words for news speak is specifically meant to promote ambiguity. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, to have been downvoted for being completely right.
@gullible @MicroWave @glimse @[email protected]
You were right. The downvotes are from people who’ve become used to AI editorship, something I abhor.
I just realized, you’re from mastodon.social. How have you managed to follow what’s going on in this thread? I tried reading lemmy/kbin posts from mastodon and had a fair bit of trouble navigating their comments. UI update? App update?
@gullible @MicroWave @glimse @[email protected]
I’m on an app called Megalodon, a fork of the Mastodon app. It’s on both the App store and Google play.
I love it. 👍
Thank you!
@glimse
No.
Vague misunderstandings and questionable titles have been utilized constantly by nearly all major print news entities for a full century. It’s the original clickbait, and colloquially known as a crash blossom. My paper on it was titled “Titled Media.”