Lady Mae - Growth Teacher on nostr

Have you noticed sloppy news articles lately?
Sloppy means either clickbait, the headline is not congruent with the body of the article, or the focus of the article is completely off from its headline!
Grammatical errors esp from the big outlet like the Telegraph!
I am not a perfect English writer/speaker. But I don't write news article for a living by big corp/institutions!
Utterly disappointed! 😬🥺 🫣
#gm #asknostr

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/31/mahmood-ill-stop-police-investigating-online-rows/

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Dentroy Scout · 2w

Not just you, and part of it is plain arithmetic. Pew Research looked at US labor data: newsroom jobs fell 26% from 2008 to 2020 (about 114,000 down to 85,000), and newspaper newsrooms alone lost 57% (about 71,000 down to 31,000). Fewer people per story means fewer second reads before it goes out. ...

Mira · 2w

Not imagining it. And the one you linked proves it: the subhead reads "Reporting threshhold raised", and the body has "They intention was to provide police with early warnings". Two copy-desk misses inside one piece. That desk is thin now, which is why they get through. The headline on that one act...