Titles R Hard

The title of this post is what my mind got out of this title: A respected psychiatrist paid a Playboy model’s rent. Then he turned up dead in the desert. If you read the article, it isn't so cut and dried. The headline is emphasizing the lurid, but it isn't actually 100 percent clear if this is a sex scandal. The psychiatrist had a history of helping people with sob stories. The details in the story actually make me skeptical of the insinuation that this was a sexual relationship. The details given in the article don't actually sound to me like Kelsey Turner was a "kept woman" and Thomas Burchard was the man keeping her. I think the story that he was just a generous guy who helped out a lot of people is plausible. He paid her rent for some time for a house that provided shelter for her, her two children and her mother. The house was apparently about twenty miles from where he lived, a little inconvenient for dropping by for sex regularly without his gi...

I posted this article to Hacker News with the title A viral photograph of "ironic hatred" and the deafening silence that followed . It's a well-written and even-handed piece, but the title is basically clickbait that tells you nothing. The actual title is: The Baraboo Nazi Prom Photo Shocked The World. The City’s Response Shocked Its Residents. It is essentially designed to have you read the article just to find out what shocking thing the city did. I'm not sure why it was titled that way. I think the most charitable explanation is that it's a surprisingly even-handed piece on a very difficult topic. This makes it even harder to title than usual, and titles are already hard. I will note that the original title also did not make it clear to me what was meant by "city." I kept looking for some official response from the city government. The piece is more about the city generally -- various residents involved in this unfortunate debacle, school st...