The Grauniad today putting out a piece on YouTube headlined "Is it the end for Keir Starmer?" only to start off with "Maybe not just yet." led me to do a quick check.
This particular question headline can be found on YouTube alone *at least* as far back as June 2025, and clearly the answer has indeed been "No." for all of that time.
Apparently, from the first time that this all came up back in 2022, you and some cat named Kat could have got together on the subject of #QuestionHeadlines .
https://stylist.co.uk/opinion/paul-morland-tax-childless/678713
Taking the 'and' to be a logical operator, obviously 'No.' anded with anything is still 'No.'.
Except in #Python, of course.
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There's a Web Developer somewhere in #Meta who is looking at the 'some' in that headline and treating it as a bug report.
At least it's not a yes/no question, though. (-:
@ianbetteridge
#QuestionHeadlines #Facebook #Instagram #SkyNews #WebDevelopers #ConsentOrPay
I think that the customary @ianbetteridge answer is (a) not what the piece goes on to claim in its body, (b) not spontaneous.
We just point @ianbetteridge at it, and the job gets done straightaway. (-:
Talking of male journalists; this one (or, possibly, xyr editor who might have written the headline) has a question to answer:
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115574802659421946
#TheIndependent #QuestionHeadlines #USPolitics #BadJournalism
Why the Hell is The Independent, with the byline of Owen Scott, the only news outlet to frame this as a question headline?
@ianbetteridge would consult Snopes, or even simply view the footage, and answer "Yes, #DonaldJTrump did.".
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-trump-called-reporter-204800150.html
Everyone else has the integrity to make a direct statement. Indeed, far from the reporter's name being "unknown", many outlets have named Catherine Lucey of Bloomberg.
I think that @ianbetteridge would put this in "No.", but at the edge of the category.
"photography as we know it" has included Photoshop et al. for years, after all. If the headline weren't so hyperbolic, I think that we might have had a rare Betteridge "Yes." here, though.
@ianbetteridge knows the answer to this one straightaway.
But the author, a "Christian pastor" who makes AI religious proselytization movies amongst other things, tries quite hard to change it.
Because apparently #ElonMusk has been great for #Tesla. That is the argument. I kid you not.
#Grokipedia #QuestionHeadlines #USPolitics #fascism #propaganda #fundamentalists #AI
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