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Technology may dumb down headlines

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Headlines of 2010:
Man hit by car.
Bellevue fire.

The future of “witty wordplay” headlines that traditionally attracted readers to certain articles may be grim, according to Clive Thompson’s article “How Google News Is Changing The Way Newspaper Headlines are Written.”

According to Thompson, newspapers and online media news sources are beginning to change their prose style in order to be more easi...


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