This headline perfectly illustrates how you can say nothing at all.
Who is the US? Are we talking about some of the citizens? The president? The military? And then who is they? And who is us?
We can use all of these pronouns and generic categories and if we don’t actually specify the people in them, then nobody learns anything. And if you can’t, write an informative headline, maybe you shouldn’t be a journalist.
This headline perfectly illustrates how you can say nothing at all.
Who is the US? Are we talking about some of the citizens? The president? The military? And then who is they? And who is us?
We can use all of these pronouns and generic categories and if we don’t actually specify the people in them, then nobody learns anything. And if you can’t, write an informative headline, maybe you shouldn’t be a journalist.
As we all know, any good article worth its reading time has a preamble defining each of the words it uses and reads like a legal doc.