O'Reilly: Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No

Posted Jul 25, 2011 22:47 UTC (Mon) by antifuchs (subscriber, #34569)
In reply to: O'Reilly: Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No by kragilkragil2
Parent article: O'Reilly: Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No

Agreed. Could the editors have chosen an even more diminutive headline than "A Big No-No"?

Way to ruin good news, LWN. )-:

O'Reilly: Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No

Posted Jul 25, 2011 22:57 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (4 responses)

Um, excuse me? We almost always preserve the original headline when pointing to outside items like this. The headline was O'Reilly's, not ours. I don't believe we "ruined" anything...?

O'Reilly: Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No

Posted Jul 25, 2011 23:28 UTC (Mon) by antifuchs (subscriber, #34569) [Link]

Wow, sorry. I only now consciously read the headline at O'Reilly's site. That above sentence should read "Way to ruin good news, O'Reilly".

O'Reilly: Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No

Posted Jul 26, 2011 9:21 UTC (Tue) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link] (2 responses)

> We almost always preserve the original headline when
> pointing to outside items like this.

And people frequently don't realise that. Consider adding quotation marks.

O'Reilly: Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No

Posted Jul 26, 2011 9:49 UTC (Tue) by roblucid (guest, #48964) [Link] (1 responses)

Good suggestion!
LWN is unusual in not spinning news overly, most news sources are prone to distortion, so highlighting quotes is good idea.

O'Reilly: Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No

Posted Jul 27, 2011 16:57 UTC (Wed) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]

You mean LWN is unusual in still actually performing journalism?

(Well, yellow journalism is alive and well in the US. Under attack in the UK.)