Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a way to edit the title, but I think this article would have been clearer with a comma. I’m going to leave it up, but sticky this here with a clearer title: “[The] Senator [Who] Elon Musk Called a ‘Traitor’ Gets Rid of His Tesla: Don’t Want a Car Built By an ‘A**hole’.”
Titles can absolutely be edited in Lemmy.
The user who submitted it could fix it, but I don’t think the mod can.
What a misleading and poorly written headline.
I’ve never heard of the site Mediaite before. I didn’t click the link, but plenty of AI slop sites are popping up and headlines like this are a good way to spot them.
Mediaite has been around for 15 years https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediaite
Thank you for the link! Will edit my comment to reflect it’s not new. It seems there’s some question as to its journalistic merit with the wiki stating “The New York Times has described the site as “a blog that chronicles the gossipy media world””, but it seems it’s been around for a bit at least.
Wait, I read the article and the headline is pretty much on point? What am I missing?
Senator Elon Musk Called a ‘Traitor’ Gets Rid of His Tesla: Don’t Want a Car Built By An ‘A**hole’
This sounds like Elon is a Senator and was called a traitor; when it was actually Musk calling a Senator a traitor.
Try:
Senator, who was called a ‘Traitor’ by Elon Musk, Gets Rid of His Tesla: Don’t Want a Car Built By An ‘A**hole’
“Senator Elon Musk” is ambiguous phrasing. Obviously, what is meant is “Senator [that] Elon Musk”, but it could also have been calling Aparthiedman himself a senator.
Such a strange sentence. Makes you “garden path” (reanalyze the syntax after already being deeper into the structure). Minimally need a “that” after “Senator”.
Though it’s uncommon usage, so that’s actually a tick against it potentially being AI generated.
We got senator musk now? 🤣
I did not buy a Tesla today and am thus in violation of the law.
Musk is the president, not a senator. What a misleading headline.
Poor grammar aside, the headline is inaccurate. I am all in favor of people dumping Teslas, but Musk neither designed nor built any of them. He paid people to design them, then he paid people to build them. And by all accounts, he did not pay them well or treat them kindly.
Senator? The fuck?
This would make more sense: Senator Who Was Called a ‘Traitor’ by Elon Musk Gets Rid of His Tesla: Don’t Want a Car Built By An ‘Asshole’
Also, it’s Mark Kelly
Edit: fixed who called who what
Thank you for your service.
The.
THE Senator…
Three letters, you couldn’t spare THREE FUCKING LETTERS?
When these publication headline writers pass-on I hope the undertaker hideously abbreviates their tombstones!
