{"id":6141,"date":"2016-08-30T18:39:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2016-08-12T18:40:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:40:37","slug":"blogs-with-question-marks-stop-it-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/blogs-with-question-marks-stop-it-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs with Question Marks. Stop it! (Part Two)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was January of 2009 when I wrote this post<\/a>. The gist of it was bloggers were getting into a bad habit of putting question marks in the titles of their posts. If they weren\u2019t sure something was factual or if they wanted to drum up click-throughs and get more commenters, they\u2019d pose a question. Basically, a question mark was lazy journalism. Instead of me writing some thoughts about a new pair of headphones on this blog, I\u2019d instead write \u201cIs this the last pair of headphones I ever buy?\u201d No, there\u2019s no way those would be the last ones I\u2019d ever buy. I\u2019m 29. Do I really want to insinuate that these headphones will last 50 years? I\u2019m not a jerk but this is a real headline bloggers use often.<\/p>\n

I close out that 2009 post with:<\/p>\n

CNN.com doesn\u2019t have any posts with question marks so why should you be able to?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, today I visited CNN.com as I do once a week to validate an assumption of mine and I noticed a few posts with question marks in them. I did a CTRL+F for \u201c?\u201d and found 14 headlines with question marks.<\/p>\n

Could it be? The slow-decay of real journalism over the last 7 years where these Internet-raised J-school drop-outs have graduated from Gawker to CNN and have infected real media with the question mark epidemic.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

\n

For those wondering what I search for on CNN, I do a weekly self-poll where I visit CNN.com and do a search for Trump and then a search for Clinton and compare how many matches there are. Trump has been winning for 6 months. Things he says generates far more page-views for CNN than things that Clinton says. The media has propped him up since the beginning, first as a joke then as a running-joke since they have to keep covering it since fair-press means the GOP nominee for President shouldn\u2019t be completely ignored. He has double the amount of posts about him over his opponent yet he\u2019s losing in most polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was January of 2009 when I wrote this post. 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