New York Times headline that reads Is Gen X Actually The Greatest Generation?
When βyesβ is the answer to a question headline.
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Journalism professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Copy editor. NOLA native, Durham denizen. Member of AAUP and ACES: the Society for Editing. https://editdesk.wordpress.com/
New York Times headline that reads Is Gen X Actually The Greatest Generation?
When βyesβ is the answer to a question headline.
07.12.2025 20:09 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Did you or someone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s?
Iβd like to talk with you or them about that experience for my research
Thanks!
Game control!
05.12.2025 17:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0AOL Time Warner!
05.12.2025 14:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Fond memories of dinner breaks there with the N&O copy desk (on the rare occasion we had one). Jim Carr usually led the way.
02.12.2025 21:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βI was under the impression that we were protected from being affected by any anti-DEI legislation and rulings because of our First Amendment right to freedom of press, but it appears I was wrong,β Alice Magazine Editor-in-Chief Gabrielle Gunter said in a statement Tuesday.
02.12.2025 17:41 β π 28 π 21 π¬ 1 π 0NYT editor takes reader questions about covering Trump. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
02.12.2025 14:52 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1βAre you silently correcting my grammar?β Nah, weβre good. We all make mistakes, especially in casual conversations.
01.12.2025 19:16 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
from Woman's Way, 1970 #cheese #manfood
29.11.2025 09:15 β π 23 π 10 π¬ 4 π 1To try to avoid the Trump administrationβs ire, Duke has instructed faculty not to speak to reporters dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
25.11.2025 13:35 β π 20 π 12 π¬ 4 π 1By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day.
Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.
So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
AP is back in court today to defend itself and the right to speak freely without government retaliation.
24.11.2025 10:30 β π 1644 π 475 π¬ 45 π 26"Are dead" is not passive voice.
23.11.2025 01:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The Raleigh holiday parade is today. Its official name: ABC11 Crossroads Ford Apex Raleigh Christmas Parade presented by Shop Local Raleigh
22.11.2025 14:44 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1The American Association of University Professors (@aaup.org) released a new report documenting an escalating assault on faculty governance structures across the country, with state legislatures in multiple states moving to strip faculty senates of their authority and independence.
20.11.2025 21:36 β π 23 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0Newspaper headline that says glitches slow roll out of Raleighβs water billing system. Whatβs going on.
Whatβs going on with headline writing. From now on, I may add that statement to many that I see.
18.11.2025 23:33 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There is renewed criticism over the names of military and DHS operations, including the most recent, Operation Charlotte's Web.
www.wunc.org/2025-11-16/w...
Headline that reads βwhat we learned from Dukeβs rout of Indiana Stateβ
Headline that says What weβve learned about UNC womenβs basketball through three games
Headline that says UNC basketball rolls past NCCU. What we learned about the Tar Heels
A lot of learning in todayβs sports section.
16.11.2025 22:01 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I will create the internet's foremost Headline Criticism platform.
16.11.2025 15:20 β π 416 π 14 π¬ 22 π 3Today among the tabloids
13.11.2025 14:59 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0βIf you want to bully people βparticularly the free press β if you want to bully them, thereβs a price to pay. And that price is going to be in the millions,β said Eric Meyer, owner and editor of the Marion County Record.
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Today's music for grading: "Being John Malkovich" (1999) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UiY...
11.11.2025 19:16 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For non-journalists, itβs helpful to see what Standards and Practices guidelines look like. Here, for example, are the APβs. www.ap.org/wp-content/u...
11.11.2025 14:36 β π 150 π 23 π¬ 2 π 1It was Whisker Wednesday, when people could bring cats to the game. (Mine stayed home.) Sir Purr and I put aside our differences in the spirit of the event and our shared fandom of felines.
09.11.2025 19:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Andy meeting the Carolina Panthers mascot Sir Purr at a baseball game. The mascot has black fur and a shirt with a paw print. Andy is wearing a cap and a T-shirt that says meow
That time that I met Sir Purr at a Durham Bulls game and told him that I am a Saints fan
09.11.2025 18:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0lousy DHS propaganda, for a change
Do we want to talk about the inept spacing, or that "just lay there" should be "just lie there"?
08.11.2025 01:08 β π 424 π 68 π¬ 35 π 4No joke, they used to show Ivy League football on PBS.
08.11.2025 00:58 β π 165 π 11 π¬ 18 π 15The next mayor of New York on a lot of world fronts today
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