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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You gotta slam them back. Slam for a slam

[–] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 154 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Lemmy user TachyonTele SLAMS news outlets for their unwanted hyperbole!!!

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)

SquirtleHermit WRECKS unwanted hyperbole. Leaves Lemmy user SPEECHLESS!

[–] nulluser@programming.dev 28 points 3 days ago

SCIENTISTS CAN'T EXPLAIN BrundleFly2077's hyperbolic discourse

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago

This is BREAKING NEWS if I’ve ever seen it.

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

They will stop as soon as the word “based” is finished.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Months ago a headline popped up with 'spanked' instead. I'm a little disappointed it didn't take off.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I’m still waiting for ASS BLASTS’ time to shine

Was there an actual spanking, or just figuratively?

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Apparently spanking took off for Fox News

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Kamala low key yeets shade at Donald Trump over cappin 💯 💯 fr.

[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stop clicking on those articles, esspecially on platforms that they actually care about, like Facebook and Twitter.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Call me pretentious, but I genuinely forget about Facebook and that lots of people still care about it.

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

As said, don't click on it. I also avoid clicking on an any article who's headline is a question

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Also if the thumbnail has obvious ‘ai’ ‘art’

[–] SyntaxTerror@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Also "Here's why"

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Like this one

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

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

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago

So, put them on blast?

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Everybody get up, it’s time to slam now!

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Stop giving them clicks.

"Audiences slam news outlets for hyperbolic headlines!"

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago
[–] fubo@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

It has been a couple years tho

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

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

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago

This donut is SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAMIN!!!!!!

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago
[–] Zier@fedia.io -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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).