{"id":1343,"date":"2011-10-04T21:43:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T01:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2011-10-04T21:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T01:57:57","slug":"is-the-answer-to-any-headline-that-ends-in-a-question-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/is-the-answer-to-any-headline-that-ends-in-a-question-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the answer to any headline that ends in a question &#8216;yes&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>No.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1348\" title=\"859634_newspaper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/859634_newspaper.jpg\" alt=\"newspaper\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/859634_newspaper.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/859634_newspaper-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=3068991\">HN<\/a>, Wikipedia states\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines\">Betteridge&#8217;s Law of Headlines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word &#8216;no&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you think about it, this makes sense. Articles that could be answered by &#8216;yes&#8217; choose to state the news in the headline rather than asking a fake question.<\/p>\n<p>Or as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines\">Wikipedia explains it<\/a>, <em>&#8220;The maxim trends towards being universally true because of a simple principle of headline writing: if a story has enough sources to have a high chance of accuracy, a headline will be assertive&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This interests me as it&#8217;s a news headline hack that tends to work. Find out the answer without having to go past the jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. Via HN, Wikipedia states\u00a0Betteridge&#8217;s Law of Headlines: Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word &#8216;no&#8217;. If you think about it, this makes sense. Articles that could be answered by &#8216;yes&#8217; choose to state the news in the headline rather than asking a fake question. Or as Wikipedia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[908,907,909,327,614,270,910],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-betteridge","tag-hack","tag-headline","tag-hn","tag-law","tag-news","tag-shortcut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}