Fix the mass media narrative: Stop click baiting and start treating readers like we have common sense.

Written by: Kelcie Glass

Headline: DC committee approves $15 million cut to DC Police budget

Truth: MPD will still receive $4 million more in their annual budget. This is a 3% increase and not a cut of any kind to the overall budget.

Stop click-baiting readers with headlines that make us think this is a move towards defunding the police. 

Stop trying to use an extremely serious and well-thought out concept by the social and racial justice movement as a way to increase clicks, views and the ad dollars for your publication, all while burying the real facts in the second and third paragraphs of your article.

We have to fix these misleading headlines. This movement is serious and a matter of life or death for many. Stop playing linguistics games and just state the facts.