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I've seen a lot of these dumbass headlines recently, with double- and triple- and quadruple-negatives instead of clear, concise terms. They're all like, "Appeals court rules against judge who declined to block restriction imposed by lower court on disabling injunction on tariffs...".
Hint to newsies: If I have to diagram your damned headline to see if it's "Yes" or "No", rewrite it.
I get what you're saying, but its a headline though. Re-writing it to be more clear might require editorializing it or make it too long to be a headline. The headline itself in your example appears to be a statement of fact without any editorializing.
Another point of confusion is fewer context clues in the headline between a word or word group being a noun or verb. Example:
Appeals court
With no context clues, its impossible to tell if this is a proper noun (the court that handles the appeals process) or a verb plus direct object (a person appealing a court ruling in the present tense)
They could just hyphenate it, "Court refuses to overturn stay -- Federal downsizing still on hold".
Yes, but which court? That version contains less information. Appellate? Supreme? The original headline communicates how far along it is in the judicial process. Also, who, in your version, is attempting to downsize the Federal government? trump? Congress? It doesn't say.
If only there was a way to provide more information to readers. I guess we'll have to just deal with our headlines only society and never get more than superficial context to anything. 🤷
Yep, I don't disagree. Welcome to the short attention span of 2025.
It is a problem, but in this case there are only two negations, and I didn't have any trouble parsing it.
They could have done better though, for example 'won't lift' could be something like "keeps"
Wtf is that headline?
A US appeals court continues to block Trump and Republicans from mass layoffs and restructuring of government agencies
Unruly liberal judge blocks a major win for the economy and stops capitalism from marching on.
I got a million of these