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    Lemmy user TachyonTele SLAMS news outlets for their unwanted hyperbole!!!

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    Months ago a headline popped up with ‘spanked’ instead. I’m a little disappointed it didn’t take off.

  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works
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    Stop clicking on those articles, esspecially on platforms that they actually care about, like Facebook and Twitter.

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      Call me pretentious, but I genuinely forget about Facebook and that lots of people still care about it.

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        Same, but include anything hosted on Google, Twitter, TikTok, or Rupert Murdoch / fake news owned servers because for me, it’s just “server cannot be found” (DNS blocking) and I move on.

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    If it’s not slam, it’s roast.

    I think journalists like these words because they’re not provably false and therefore can’t get sued for misrepresenting what someone said

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      And if, heaven forbid, it’s not either of those, it is now apparently acceptable to refer to it as a “clap back.” In the newspaper of all places.

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        It’d probably be slander to say “X said this” when they didn’t say it.

        “X expresses disgust about Y” could be slanderous if it’s not disgust, but “a respectful disagreement”, etc.

        But “X slams Y”? “Slam” doesn’t mean anything. So nobody can confirm or deny that any “slamming” happened.

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    As said, don’t click on it. I also avoid clicking on an any article who’s headline is a question

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    Stop giving them clicks.

    “Audiences slam news outlets for hyperbolic headlines!”

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    It’s just the current buzzword.

    Hundreds if not thousands went before it and many more will follow.

    Think of it as an in-built historic timestamp.

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      It’s like an old 100 yo trend of writing headlines except it has gotten much more “slam”-filled. Crash blossoms / headlinese has evolved over time.

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    Stand outside the editors window blasting the OST to space jam (the first one of course) everytime they publish such an article.

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    Get everyone who reads articles to stop clicking on any headline that includes the word. Then they’d pay attention.

    In other words, only a significant drop in clicks would drive any change.

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      If we could just let the boys be boys maybe this whole SLAM thing would just go away

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    If it’s not “slam”, it’ll be something else just as bad. Be careful what you wish for, or it might be replaced with “obliterate” or “wreck” or something worse.

    Instead, how about we get news outlets to stop writing ambiguously abbreviated headlines as if they still needed them to fit on a page? “Stud Tires Out” could mean two wildly different things, and you can easily fit a couple more words into the 80% of the screen you’ve filled with ads.

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      5 months ago

      Kamala low key yeets shade at Donald Trump over cappin 💯 💯 fr.

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    “Beloved slam is slammed by lemming, news at 11”