I also think it over-privileges the sensational: clickbait becomes preferable to thoughtful analysis, headlines become more important than stories, and people rarely fact-check what they read.
Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?".
Motoo Shiina, a veteran Diet member, offered a more thoughtful dissent: the correct headline, he said, would have been "The Japanese people's amazing ability not to be disappointed".
By Matthew Trammell Three innovative voices, spanning three decades, headline nights of thoughtful R. & B. On her new EP, "hallucinogen," the Los Angeles singer-songwriter Kelela draws from a dozen styles of honeyed R. & B. and avant-garde club music.
I feel as if the readers who appear to have read the article carefully – which is important, because it has many layers, not reflected in the snappy headline – have had very thoughtful reactions.
That was in 2005 and it coincided with the moment that Maliphant's thoughtful, sinuously beautiful choreography hit the headlines when he made Push, a duet for him and Sylvie Guillem.
Here is the first, about a headline, later changed: "Please be more thoughtful about how women are described.
Though each was partly in the right, and all were in the wrong!." The NHS noted this ping-pong match of headlines, as a lead-in to a thoughtful, plain-spoken deconstruction and analysis of the research.
The headline answer is to build more homes (more thoughtful observers, like the geographer Danny Dorling, also call for much more refurbishment of existing stock).
Great headline-grabbing axes don't do wise and thoughtful.
