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defrogYr Insanely-Stupid-Clickbait Headline of the day:
No he fucking didn’t. He said something you agree with. There’s a fucking difference. This headline is the reason journalism sucks now. That and the Knowable page just reposted Schwarzenegger’s entire column with a new sucky headline. Which is just doubly lazy.
Here’s the actual headline to the piece:
This is a better headline because it’s limited to the POV of the writer, and it actually tells you something about what the article actually says.
Also, as Schwarzenegger isn’t actually a journalist, he can be held to a lower standard than actual journalists. And he has the better headline here so just let’s think about that for a moment.
Sorry, but as someone who edits magazines for a living, this is a big pet peeve of mine. I understand the need for clickbait headlines – really, I do – but there’s a good and bad way to do it. And the worst offenders are invariably ones like this that claim the person in the story stated some opinion about some political issue that “totally crushed” or “destroyed” or “shut down” whatever political entity or ideology they oppose.
Which it never, never does. It would only be true if everyone on the other side gave up and joined yr side, or went Galt and disappeared into the woods, never to be seen again.
Anyway, my actual purpose for posting this is to relay Schwarzenegger’s post, which is actually quite good. Admittedly that’s something I never thought I’d type. But he does pretty much sum up the way I’ve felt about the climate change debate for some time now:
While I do think climate change science is real, I also think it’s beside the point. Whether you personally believe climate change science or not, what’s indisputable is that pollution is choking our cities and ruining our water supplies, and eventually, one way or the other, we will need an alternative to fossil fuels when they run out, and there’s no sense in waiting until then to figure out a plan.
How that can be accomplished affordably – and whether govt funding/regulation is required – is, of course, up for debate. But we need the debate to actually happen, and it won’t as long as the GOP leadership keeps using climate change denial as an excuse to avoid discussion of the issue.
Clean it up,
This is dF
No he fucking didn’t. He said something you agree with. There’s a fucking difference. This headline is the reason journalism sucks now. That and the Knowable page just reposted Schwarzenegger’s entire column with a new sucky headline. Which is just doubly lazy.
Here’s the actual headline to the piece:
This is a better headline because it’s limited to the POV of the writer, and it actually tells you something about what the article actually says.
Also, as Schwarzenegger isn’t actually a journalist, he can be held to a lower standard than actual journalists. And he has the better headline here so just let’s think about that for a moment.
Sorry, but as someone who edits magazines for a living, this is a big pet peeve of mine. I understand the need for clickbait headlines – really, I do – but there’s a good and bad way to do it. And the worst offenders are invariably ones like this that claim the person in the story stated some opinion about some political issue that “totally crushed” or “destroyed” or “shut down” whatever political entity or ideology they oppose.
Which it never, never does. It would only be true if everyone on the other side gave up and joined yr side, or went Galt and disappeared into the woods, never to be seen again.
Anyway, my actual purpose for posting this is to relay Schwarzenegger’s post, which is actually quite good. Admittedly that’s something I never thought I’d type. But he does pretty much sum up the way I’ve felt about the climate change debate for some time now:
While I do think climate change science is real, I also think it’s beside the point. Whether you personally believe climate change science or not, what’s indisputable is that pollution is choking our cities and ruining our water supplies, and eventually, one way or the other, we will need an alternative to fossil fuels when they run out, and there’s no sense in waiting until then to figure out a plan.
How that can be accomplished affordably – and whether govt funding/regulation is required – is, of course, up for debate. But we need the debate to actually happen, and it won’t as long as the GOP leadership keeps using climate change denial as an excuse to avoid discussion of the issue.
Clean it up,
This is dF
