It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.
Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.
You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'
You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial.