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YOU MUST READ THIS is not a headline

06.29.2016 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

In the early days of Facebook, I forgave people their terrible post titles, because they hadn't spent their careers writing headlines. But you see it and I see it: A decade on, amateur communicators aren't getting better at writing grabby Facebook posts. Rather, professional communicators (many of whom I count as Facebook friends) are getting worse. And I'm worried that in another 10 years, this growing incompetence will spread to the front page of my Sunday paper.NYT

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