Thank you for this. It’s something I’ve gotten in genuine arguments with my journalist friend about. In these situations, you have to put the context of the claim before the claim itself.
“20,000 workers resign, Trump official says” sounds much more concrete than “Trump official says 20,000 workers resign” on its own and adding the necessary “If true” helps a lot too. This is how all headlines about anything said by this administration should be treated.
The actual headline is…
I changed it because - of course - it’s safe to assume that anybody connected to Trump is lying.
Thank you for this. It’s something I’ve gotten in genuine arguments with my journalist friend about. In these situations, you have to put the context of the claim before the claim itself.
“20,000 workers resign, Trump official says” sounds much more concrete than “Trump official says 20,000 workers resign” on its own and adding the necessary “If true” helps a lot too. This is how all headlines about anything said by this administration should be treated.