The most frequent words appearing in the new "journalism" era of the web include two of the most over-used verbs in today's headlines: slams, and blasts. It seems like lately everyone is "slamming" everyone else while others are "blasting" people for their comments. Honestly, if a story doesn't have either "slams" or "blasts" in the headline, I don't read it...
I realize that in order to try to grab readers headlines need to add a bit of sensationalism, but I think maybe, just maybe we're going a little overboard with these...
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