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I thought we were done with "slamming" in headlines. At least it felt like I didn't see any of those here on Lemmy until now…
It always makes political statements read like Pokemon battles.
Lula uses SLAM on UN!
...it's not very effective.
Unfortunately, it seems most politicians are Ghost types, since it never seems to affect them.
Reading terms like "slammed" instead of terms like "criticized" in a headline always makes me think the author must be an uncultured, uneducated and very ordinary person.
In order to be accurate, most of the news communities want the headline of the post to be the same as the one in the article. And as the news sites use “slam”, well…