Imagine thinking that just because a paper is available on the web, the editorial style isnāt dictated by its domestic audience.
I expect you will also be shocked that when they reference āThe Prime Ministerā they quite often donāt even bother to reference which countryās prime minister they are taking about. Shocking, eh?
Iām in the US and, surprisingly, Iām seeing it. Weird place. Itās like we have this web around the world connecting people. Maybe we could call it the Global Net, or GN for short.
Yes, I sort of guess led you were American. I think the giveaway is the assumption that everyone globally should know the the minutiae of American domestic politics, and the shock that minor political figures might not be known by name.
Sure, but if youāre writting an article on them you at least think itās important enough to write an article on them. I donāt think anyone outside of the US, or even outside Colorado, should care about this, but the author here did. If itās that important to them, the least they could do is include the name in the headline. Either that or it isnāt important and both the creation of this article, as well as the posting of it, was a complete waste of time. Idk which one it is.
No. Because the purpose of the article is to bring the person to the readerās attention for the first time. It is āhere is this person who is new to you, who has doing something interestingā.
They might come out of the article knowing the personās name, but they are not going into it that way, so leading on the name would be a failure of a headline
Itās UK newspaper. Literally none of the readership will know his name.
Imagine thinking that in 2023 an UK newspaper is restricted to only UK readers.
Imagine thinking that just because a paper is available on the web, the editorial style isnāt dictated by its domestic audience.
I expect you will also be shocked that when they reference āThe Prime Ministerā they quite often donāt even bother to reference which countryās prime minister they are taking about. Shocking, eh?
Iām in the US and, surprisingly, Iām seeing it. Weird place. Itās like we have this web around the world connecting people. Maybe we could call it the Global Net, or GN for short.
Yes, I sort of guess led you were American. I think the giveaway is the assumption that everyone globally should know the the minutiae of American domestic politics, and the shock that minor political figures might not be known by name.
Sure, but if youāre writting an article on them you at least think itās important enough to write an article on them. I donāt think anyone outside of the US, or even outside Colorado, should care about this, but the author here did. If itās that important to them, the least they could do is include the name in the headline. Either that or it isnāt important and both the creation of this article, as well as the posting of it, was a complete waste of time. Idk which one it is.
No. Because the purpose of the article is to bring the person to the readerās attention for the first time. It is āhere is this person who is new to you, who has doing something interestingā.
They might come out of the article knowing the personās name, but they are not going into it that way, so leading on the name would be a failure of a headline