How much of what's portrayed as caving the narrative to the fascisti is really only turning the headline-writing function over to them? I try to avoid deliberately reading the fascist agit-prop (it's unavoidable, so why seek it out?) so do not bother clicking thru to anything FOX/OANN, etc...but the headline of the article cited above stands on its own as clickbait for 'both' sides. These days it is often the case that the headline bypasses the meaning of the article (and often bypasses truth and reason). This is aside from the whole thing with crafting a headline as a 'just asking the question'* wanking exercise...
*Any 'news' operation that uses questions as headlines is just flopping its vast, cash-cow editorial opinion department onto its broom closet-sized journalism hovel.
The sad part is that right-wing provocateurs that have turned CRT into the outrage du jour know full well what they are doing: creating artificial clickbait for mainstream media venues. And those venues either know what they are doing by knowingly creating clickbait out of nothingburgers like this; or they don't know what they are doing and are unknowingly creating clickbait, testimony to the gullibility of the reporting venue. I suspect the NH Register knows this is clickbait, but does not want to call out know-nothing-ness of the astroturfers who have shown up to harass the Guilford Board of Education.
How much of what's portrayed as caving the narrative to the fascisti is really only turning the headline-writing function over to them? I try to avoid deliberately reading the fascist agit-prop (it's unavoidable, so why seek it out?) so do not bother clicking thru to anything FOX/OANN, etc...but the headline of the article cited above stands on its own as clickbait for 'both' sides. These days it is often the case that the headline bypasses the meaning of the article (and often bypasses truth and reason). This is aside from the whole thing with crafting a headline as a 'just asking the question'* wanking exercise...
*Any 'news' operation that uses questions as headlines is just flopping its vast, cash-cow editorial opinion department onto its broom closet-sized journalism hovel.
The sad part is that right-wing provocateurs that have turned CRT into the outrage du jour know full well what they are doing: creating artificial clickbait for mainstream media venues. And those venues either know what they are doing by knowingly creating clickbait out of nothingburgers like this; or they don't know what they are doing and are unknowingly creating clickbait, testimony to the gullibility of the reporting venue. I suspect the NH Register knows this is clickbait, but does not want to call out know-nothing-ness of the astroturfers who have shown up to harass the Guilford Board of Education.