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The journalist is not necessarily responsible for the title. Editors often change those and they don’t need to get the approval of the journalist. The editor kn
by skeltoac 9mo ago
The journalist is not necessarily responsible for the title. Editors often change those and they don’t need to get the approval of the journalist. The editor knows what they are doing and that it will irk some tech folks.
- pwg 9mo agoAs far as creating a click bait title, yep, the editor knows what they are doing, and most likely picked the word for the click bait factor. But I'd also bet the editors technical knowledge of how this "revelation" of the hidden material really works is low enough that it also appears to be magic to them as well. So they likely think it is a 'hack' as well.
- streetnoodles 9mo agoI seriously doubt the journalist doesn’t understand exactly how this “hack” worked too. Right in the first paragraph, “simply highlighting text to paste into a word processing file.” A lot of people in the thread here are calling them a non-technical English major who doesn’t understand the technology. Word processors also happen to be the tools of their trade, I am sure they understand features of Word better than most of the computer science majors in this thread…
- Melatonic 9mo agoAgreed - not sure why so many are being so critical here. They probably didn't write the title and for better or worse "hack" has now become a common word casually used by many to mean "workflow trick" or similar.