[Jolla]

why do journalist write the same thing 4 times in the title and first 5 sentences of their article?

[dmet]

Wish that was acceptable when i was writing term papers.

[dmet]

Wish that was acceptable when i was writing term papers.

[zeestephen]

Re: "Why do journalists write the same thing 4 times in the title and first 5 sentences of their article?"

Because today the journalist is probably a software program.

Fifty years ago, newsrooms had perfectionist copy editors who labored over every word and punctuation in the headline and the first paragraph.