We see titles like this quite often in different forms of social media.

"______ is here to stay, and here's why that's a good thing." or things such as "__________ is happening and here's why that's a bad thing."

Titles like these have gotten my attention, but not for a good reason. It first started a while back when a Redditor posted a picture compiling different journalistic sources, showcasing that although there were almost 30 different sources, each followed a near identical article format... "and here's why that's a good thing."

It was quite disturbing. I took to Google and simply searched, "and here's why that's a good thing articles". When I clicked search, countless articles with the same use of "and heres why that's a good thing" showed up.

Hundreds and hundreds of articles all using the same sentence.... "and here's why that's a good thing". Simple change good to bad and you find countless articles from different sources all using the same format as well.

At this point, I get to wondering. Why are they all using the same titles? It's almost as if they are instructing people how they should feel. Then it struck me. They ARE.

In a world where people are too busy to sit down and read a book. In a world where people can't even open up an article posted online, but simply read the title of the post and make their decision based on a single sentence without reading, the usage of short, condensed article headlines are being used to shape and mold peoples thoughts.

These articles, articles that say, "and heres why that's a bad/good thing" are instructing people how they should think instead of thinking for theirselves. Instead of saying, "is that really a bad thing?" and looking deeper into it, they simply read the title and agree with it. The titles, these sensational, exaggerated headlines are instructing people how to think. And its very dangerous.

These websites know people aren't going to sit down and really read the article, so they push as much emotion and information into the headline as possible and THATS what people make their decision based off of. That's what it seems like to me.

"Trump did this and that's why its a bad thing." Is it? Is it really a bad thing? Did you even look up WHY it might be or did you just agree that its a bad thing because the headline told you its a bad thing. I'm just using Trump as an example since so many of the google articles revolve around his Presidency.

In all, I think these "and heres why that's a bad/good thing" articles are dangerous and using the assumption that the American people are stupid. That they can be brainwashed. These articles are telling people how they should think and feel. Its very slimy and deceptive.

What do you think about it? Id like to hear from other people what their thoughts are on this "journalistic" usage of verbiage