In a sharp break from Arkansas education officials, the Little Rock School District said in a news release it will offer AP African American Studies for credit.
In a sharp break from Arkansas education officials, the Little Rock School District said in a news release it will offer AP African American Studies for credit.
That title had to be clickbait and it got me. Here I was fully believing segregation had come back to Arkansas in some capacity.
I’m assuming you thought they were allowing a class of African Americans to graduate…?
It’s not clickbait just because you misinterpreted it.
Its not clickbait, it’s just really ambiguously worded because they omitted the word “studies”
Vague misunderstandings and questionable titles have been utilized constantly by nearly all major print news entities for a full century. It’s the original clickbait, and colloquially known as a crash blossom. My paper on it was titled “Titled Media.”
@glimse @gullible
Misinterpretation is the fault of the presenter, not the reader.
Speak or write to your audience.
@girlfreddy
The audience is people who have been following the news. Recent events are the context that make this make perfect sense. You can take a headline from 10 years ago and it won’t make any sense without context, too.
It’s a crash blossom and intentional. Omitting words for news speak is specifically meant to promote ambiguity. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, to have been downvoted for being completely right.
@gullible @MicroWave @glimse @girlfreddy@kbin.social
You were right. The downvotes are from people who’ve become used to AI editorship, something I abhor.
I just realized, you’re from mastodon.social. How have you managed to follow what’s going on in this thread? I tried reading lemmy/kbin posts from mastodon and had a fair bit of trouble navigating their comments. UI update? App update?
@gullible @MicroWave @glimse @girlfreddy@kbin.social
I’m on an app called Megalodon, a fork of the Mastodon app. It’s on both the App store and Google play.
I love it. 👍
Thank you!
@glimse
No.