GAME staff discovered zero hours contracts move via mass Microsoft Teams calls

https://lemmy.ml/post/14272770

GAME staff discovered zero hours contracts move via mass Microsoft Teams calls - Lemmy

This headline is almost incoherent, I wish they’d stop teaching journalists about newspaper shorthand headlines. We’re not limited to broadleaf sized headlines any more, just put some fucking words in there so it makes sense.

I got to ask, has reading comprehension really come down that much in the recent decades?

Could the title be expanded to be more prosaic? Sure!
But at the same time, it’s intuitively and entirely understandable.

Who? GAME staff
What? Discovered something
What exactly? That they’re moving to zero hour contracts
How? Via a mass Microsoft Teams call

Or, written together, the title up above. And that’s a completely normal sentence structure, it’s essentially how your brain should expect a sentence conveying that information to be structured, or the final part would be at the start (“Via a mass microsoft teams call…”).

Nitpick, I know. But while it wouldn’t hurt the title to be longer, conscise information is a benefit (after all, most 30-60 minutes Youtube videos only contain enough information for 2-4 paragraphs if they were written). And the sentence has no issues, unless people read so little in modern times that I overestimate what makes sense to readers and what dos not.

Sure, but while I understand the sentence structure I still don’t know what it’s talking about without the article itself

I think the point they are making is that we use these short titles even though we don’t need to. It might be correct, but why not make better use of the medium