{"id":9270,"date":"2012-12-17T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T23:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=9270"},"modified":"2012-12-17T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T23:34:29","slug":"desperate-ars-technica-writer-comes-up-with-sensationalistic-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/12\/17\/desperate-ars-technica-writer-comes-up-with-sensationalistic-headline\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Ars Technica Writer comes up with Sensationalistic Headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a writer for a well-established tech-site and you&#8217;re desperate for page views, what would you do?<\/p>\n<p>Ars Technica writer, Casey Johnston knows exactly what to do. Write a sensationalistic headline.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Desperate iOS users download Google Maps 10 million times in 2 days<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Desperate&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>It is a poor choice of word. It also shows how misinformed the writer is. The one person who is &#8220;desperate&#8221; for attention is none other than Casey Johnston herself. How in the world Ars Technica Editor would approve this post. People who read Ars Technica might have mistaken it for a tabloid magazine.<\/p>\n<p>For that, Casey Johnston is the JackArse Technica of the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Note:<br \/>\nThis is not the first time in recent months Ars Technica published poorly written articles and headlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a writer for a well-established tech-site and you&#8217;re desperate for page views, what would you do? Ars Technica writer, Casey Johnston knows exactly what to do. Write a sensationalistic headline. Desperate iOS users download Google Maps 10 million times in 2 days &#8220;Desperate&#8221;? It is a poor choice of word. It also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/12\/17\/desperate-ars-technica-writer-comes-up-with-sensationalistic-headline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Desperate Ars Technica Writer 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":[946,4,6],"tags":[936],"class_list":["post-9270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-rants","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2pw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270","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=9270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}