{"id":8920,"date":"2012-10-09T21:53:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T04:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2012-10-09T21:53:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T04:53:02","slug":"confirmed-ars-technica-employed-journalist-comes-up-with-sensationalistic-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/10\/09\/confirmed-ars-technica-employed-journalist-comes-up-with-sensationalistic-headline\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Ars Technica-employed journalist comes up with sensationalistic headline."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re whoring for page-hits, then you should come up with sensationalistic headlines. Ars Technica-employed journalist, Dan Goodin knows exactly how to do that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Confirmed: Apple-owned fingerprint software exposes Windows passwords<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Crappy-Ars-Technica-Writer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Crappy-Ars-Technica-Writer\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Crappy-Ars-Technica-Writer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bra-effin&#8217;-vo! Add Apple in the headline and wait for the page-hits to increase at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n<p>The headlines is not inaccurate because AuthenTec revealed that they were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1138830\/000119312512318086\/d384083d8k.htm\" target=\"_blank\">acquired by Apple Inc. on July 26, 2012<\/a>. The problem with the headline is that Apple had nothing to do with the vulnerable software. It is not a quality headline anyone would expect from someone who graduated from UC Berkeley with Masters of Journalism degree. It is a type of headline one would expect from TMZ or National Enquirer.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of headlines this Ars Technica-employed journalist can come up with next?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;HP CEO acquired Skype for eBay&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re whoring for page-hits, then you should come up with sensationalistic headlines. Ars Technica-employed journalist, Dan Goodin knows exactly how to do that. Confirmed: Apple-owned fingerprint software exposes Windows passwords Bra-effin&#8217;-vo! Add Apple in the headline and wait for the page-hits to increase at an alarming rate. The headlines is not inaccurate because AuthenTec &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/10\/09\/confirmed-ars-technica-employed-journalist-comes-up-with-sensationalistic-headline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Confirmed: Ars Technica-employed journalist comes up with sensationalistic headline.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[936],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rants","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2jS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}