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Remember Beattie's Law: "If there’s a question mark in the headline the answer is either (tabloid) 'no' or (broadsheet) 'who cares?'"
Remember Beattie's Law: "If there’s a question mark in the headline the answer is either (tabloid) 'no' or (broadsheet) 'who cares?'"
I had a J-School prof (ha, remember THOSE guys?) who said that a ? in a headline, or a rhetorical question in a tease was a sign of incompetence, laziness and journalistic malpractice.
Is he right?
(yes, yes he is.)
"What do you think?"
Every headline on the Washington Post website homepage has a question mark in it lately. Just sayin'.
Slate is nothing but questions these days.
My last two big projects for my freelance client had question marks in the headlines.
And on cable news, the answer is "God, we hope"