Let's stop arguing with headlines that the writer didn't write

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lets-stop-arguing-with-headlines-that-the-writer-didnt-write

by Timothy P. Carney
| October 31, 2014 09:54 AM

If you're not a journalist, here's a trade secret: The person who wrote an article often isn't the same person who wrote the headline.

Editors write many headlines — certainly in print, often online. They edit the headlines for length, for house style, for eye-grabbing capability, for click-bait and for search-engine optimization. Sometimes we writers submit a headline that we expect will be rewritten. Sometimes we don't even bother.

This gets problematic at times, because sometimes the editor writes something the author doesn't argue in the piece — and doesn't even believe.

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