I started really noticing it more and more. NPR is one of the organizations guilty of this. They would sometimes title their articles in a pretty non-descriptive way. Sometimes I find out about their articles on social media when someone post it with a title that expose the main interesting points in their title or excerpt.

I started to feel that some random organization out there might have released the most detailed and ground-breaking report in the whole year, but they had chosen a weird title that does not say what the report is talking about and that is why no one know about it.

The worst of them all is the organizations that give their articles 2-3 words title. It kind of defeats the purpose of titles as a whole. How the hell is anyone supposed to understand and read that excellent article if it has a name like “Cold Morning” with no subtitle.

Overall, I really hope organizations start to at least have a deeper titles (Long or short) that actually describe what I am about to read.

Edit:

to solidify my point here is a original article from NPR: A popular climate website will be hobbled, after Trump administration eliminates entire staff

Here is the title I posted with and that in my opinion describes what is happening: Climate.gov will stop publishing new content on July 1.

This is not the best title here, but it’s a huge improvement over the original article.

Edit 2: A Knock at the Door

Sigh…