Margaret Sullivan writes today about news headlines "that deliver a soft-focus, missing-the-point, safe-as-milk version of national politics." She cites a 2023 piece I wrote when I was just starting my Stop the Presses newsletter, headlined: "The New York Times Has a Serious Headline Problem."
'I fixed that for you': Why mainstream headlines keep failing
Plus: one journalist's brave plunge into independence; and my rant about a supposedly positive article about Buffalo