How do we get news outlets to stop using "slam" in thier articles? It's beyond ridiculous at this point.

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.

Apparently spanking took off for Fox News
I’m still waiting for ASS BLASTS’ time to shine
Was there an actual spanking, or just figuratively?

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.

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

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.
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.

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

Stop giving them clicks.

"Audiences slam news outlets for hyperbolic headlines!"

It's just the current buzzword.

Hundreds if not thousands went before it and many more will follow.

Think of it as an in-built historic timestamp.

It has been a couple years tho
It's like an old 100 yo trend of writing headlines except it has gotten much more "slam"-filled. Crash blossoms / headlinese has evolved over time.

Everybody get up, it's time to slam now

Stand outside the editors window blasting the OST to space jam (the first one of course) everytime they publish such an article.

So, put them on blast?
Everybody get up, it’s time to slam now!

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.

Slam! da duh duh, da duh duh, let the boys be boys.

If we could just let the boys be boys maybe this whole SLAM thing would just go away

You gotta slam them back. Slam for a slam

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.

“Beloved slam is slammed by lemming, news at 11”

Don't worry, soon they'll catch on to "cooked".

That's an easy one - change it for them!

Slam them!

This donut is SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAMIN!!!!!!

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I personally want to stuff every journalist into the nearest paper shredder that continues to use the stupid word, "unprecedented". Ha ha, the pun is dead, stop beating it so damn hard. :eyeroll:

Is that overused? I can’t think of a time I’ve read that and disagreed, and I haven’t seen it used often (especially in headlines).

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.