As a reminder, in both print and online publications, the content of an article is written by a journalist, but the headline is usually written by the editor. Journalists have an obligation to the readers to accurately convey context and factual information. Editors have an obligation to the owners/shareholders to sell as many newspapers or clicks as possible.
Journalists cannot write if nothing gets printed, and editors cannot publish if no articles are written. It’s a symbiotic relationship, but clickbait headlines are definitely one of the cons of that relationship. What’s unfortunate is that a lot of people just aren’t aware of this internal tension, so lots of good journalism is unread because of overzealous editors.
To be clear, typically an author must be consulted if the article’s body will be modified. But not for the headline or title or the high-level summary preceding the body.
I used to work for newspapers and magazines: This regularly drove me nuts. It’s not even necessarily the editor that writes or changes them, it can just be a random copy editor too. They fucked up my captions regularly on photos and at least half a dozen headlines too.
The title makes this sound like a problem, but it’s the opposite. The “major impact” is that China is implementing stronger safety regulations on battery production which will probably affect the entire e-bike market. This is a good thing.
It’s “the enemy” on Fox News, but I don’t think it’s fair to characterize the entire US this way. There are so many safety warning labels on all kinds of products, and a lot of quality enforcement. With government organizations like the FDA, EPA, FCC, OSHA and NIST, and even non-government groups like UL, the US is actually a world leader in safety standards. Many of those organizations are the model that other countries emulate.
This comment doesn’t make any sense. The organizations I’m talking about are US institutions - they set policy in the US. They don’t have power to make other nations emulate the way they work. That emulation happens because they are good models to follow.
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