Ban headlines like this

Ban headlines like this
(CommonSenseJournalism) One inviolate rule of headline writing - it should reflect with fealty what the story actually says.So let's look at this specimen from today's (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper.Is there really a 'ban'?Let me help by starting with the last graf:The pr

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