You gotta slam them back. Slam for a slam
That’s an easy one - change it for them!
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.
“Beloved slam is slammed by lemming, news at 11”
As said, don’t click on it. I also avoid clicking on an any article who’s headline is a question
Stop giving them clicks.
“Audiences slam news outlets for hyperbolic headlines!”
Slam! da duh duh, da duh duh, let the boys be boys.
Lemmy user TachyonTele SLAMS news outlets for their unwanted hyperbole!!!
SquirtleHermit WRECKS unwanted hyperbole. Leaves Lemmy user SPEECHLESS!
SCIENTISTS CAN’T EXPLAIN BrundleFly2077’s hyperbolic discourse
This is BREAKING NEWS if I’ve ever seen it.
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
Do they get sued? Because there is a lot of misinformation out there, and I don’t mean in the far right “fake news” sense.
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.
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.
Stop clicking on those articles, esspecially on platforms that they actually care about, like Facebook and Twitter.
Call me pretentious, but I genuinely forget about Facebook and that lots of people still care about it.
