FIREmenow
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It doesn't quite rise to the level of a peeve, but there's been a recent change in headlines that doesn't really make sense. Old style headline:
Report: Turkish President Doesn't Like Spaghetti
That makes sense. It's shorthand for "According to a report, the Turkish president ..." or "There's a report, and here's what it says."
New style:
Turkish President Doesn't Like Spaghetti: Report
A colon is: "a punctuation mark used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation."
That change is kind of funny - it's like they think your attention span is not long enough to make it past the first word, so they had to bring the "meat" right up to the front.
I hope that's not true.