When I first read the headline, I thought the article was about how the iPhone itself was dying.
I'm surprised to see the NY Times have such clickbait-ish headlines. Mods, maybe change the title on HN?
I'm surprised to see the NY Times have such clickbait-ish headlines. Mods, maybe change the title on HN?
It stopped being a prestigious broadsheet long ago. The active anti-Trump coverage (and I'm anti-Trump) is just cannibalizing their remaining credibility, which is derived from the interesting investigative work they still do from time to time.
I'm not an editor, so I'm not going to give you a bullshit internet opinion of how they should do their job. I will say that media organizations such as the LA Times and BBC seem much better at reporting the information as it is, and letting me form my own conclusions.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/reader-center/impeachment...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/business/media/trump-news...
It’s also a dumb article. People are taking pictures of their dead loved ones and posting it to Facebook. This is... news?
Just the other week I saw someone who had posted a candid photo of him and his dying girlfriend at the hospital on Reddit. He was ridiculed and the thread was deleted, but not before someone had screenshotted it and posted it on Twitter to mock. Seeing death in public is still an uncommon thing.
Often these photos would be taken as a group family picture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography
> Post-mortem photography was very common in the nineteenth century when "death occurred in the home and was quite an ordinary part of life."[3] As photography was a new medium, it is plausible that "many daguerreotype post-mortem portraits, especially those of infants and young children, were probably the only photographs ever made of the sitters. The long exposure time made deceased subjects easy to photograph.'
> In the Victorian era it was not uncommon to photograph deceased young children or newborns in the arms of their mother. The inclusion of the mother, it has been argued, encourages one to see through the mother's eyes
I will concede that the title should be changed for HN's guidelines.