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The Times loves to do things like this, I’ve noticed.
It’s very… bloglike, innit?
Yep, and in fact, this practice can lead to multiple headlines for the same article on my automated site. E.g., for the two NYT headlines, I have both
http://www.memeorandum.com/05/02/14/#nyt–bloggers_as_news_media_trophy_hunters
and
http://www.memeorandum.com/05/02/14/#nyt–resignation_at_cnn_shows_the_growing_influence_of_blogs
I hope to avoid this via a software fix eventually, but on the other hand, this is one way to document these shenanigans.
Were the editors being childish or serious? Hard to tell with the Times these days. They seem so unsteady lately. Why might that be?