@steve_zeke @GhostOnTheHalfShell If I owned a newspaper, the highest-paid job in the entire newsroom would be headline writer. I'd hire someone experienced and wise and clever and most of all HONEST, an old-school journo with ink for blood like Dave McLemore or Charlie Meyerson, and give them a research staff independent of the regular journos and fact-checkers, and the power to hold the presses, and then have every single hed reviewed before publication by a team of smart high school and college journalists. I'd pay everyone in the process really well, and also require that if a hed WAS misleading despite all that, no one would be fired, but the entire team would have to get drunk together that night on bottom-shelf tequila and cheap moscato then come to work or school the next day wearing Speedos, with "I COMMIT TO CONSTANTLY IMPROVING" scrawled on their torsos with grease pencil.