You gotta slam them back. Slam for a slam
As said, don’t click on it. I also avoid clicking on an any article who’s headline is a question
Also if the thumbnail has obvious ‘ai’ ‘art’
Also “Here’s why”
Like this one
If it’s not “slam”, it’ll be something else just as bad. Be careful what you wish for, or it might be replaced with “obliterate” or “wreck” or something worse.
Instead, how about we get news outlets to stop writing ambiguously abbreviated headlines as if they still needed them to fit on a page? “Stud Tires Out” could mean two wildly different things, and you can easily fit a couple more words into the 80% of the screen you’ve filled with ads.
Kamala low key yeets shade at Donald Trump over cappin 💯 💯 fr.
Get everyone who reads articles to stop clicking on any headline that includes the word. Then they’d pay attention.
In other words, only a significant drop in clicks would drive any change.
“Beloved slam is slammed by lemming, news at 11”
That’s an easy one - change it for them!
Slam them!
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You don’t. Language evolves. At this point, I’m more annoyed by the people calling it out and complaining about it that I am about seeing it in headlines.
Lemmy user TachyonTele SLAMS news outlets for their unwanted hyperbole!!!
SquirtleHermit WRECKS unwanted hyperbole. Leaves Lemmy user SPEECHLESS!
SCIENTISTS CAN’T EXPLAIN BrundleFly2077’s hyperbolic discourse
This is BREAKING NEWS if I’ve ever seen it.
They will stop as soon as the word “based” is finished.
Months ago a headline popped up with ‘spanked’ instead. I’m a little disappointed it didn’t take off.
I’m still waiting for ASS BLASTS’ time to shine
Was there an actual spanking, or just figuratively?
Apparently spanking took off for Fox News
Stop clicking on those articles, esspecially on platforms that they actually care about, like Facebook and Twitter.
Call me pretentious, but I genuinely forget about Facebook and that lots of people still care about it.
Same, but include anything hosted on Google, Twitter, TikTok, or Rupert Murdoch / fake news owned servers because for me, it’s just “server cannot be found” (DNS blocking) and I move on.
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If it’s not slam, it’s roast.
I think journalists like these words because they’re not provably false and therefore can’t get sued for misrepresenting what someone said
Do they get sued? Because there is a lot of misinformation out there, and I don’t mean in the far right “fake news” sense.
It’d probably be slander to say “X said this” when they didn’t say it.
“X expresses disgust about Y” could be slanderous if it’s not disgust, but “a respectful disagreement”, etc.
But “X slams Y”? “Slam” doesn’t mean anything. So nobody can confirm or deny that any “slamming” happened.
And if, heaven forbid, it’s not either of those, it is now apparently acceptable to refer to it as a “clap back.” In the newspaper of all places.
