Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscription models

Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by Torai on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:06PM (#14806444)

That's a very misleading usage of the colon (:) punctuation mark. Is it even correct to use it like that in english?

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by annexrichmond on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:25PM (#14806616)

I think it is more correct (and less ambiguous) to have 'TheStreet: Facebook to launch news subscription product'

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by senthil_rajasek on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:30PM (#14807179)

I wonder why they did not use this common variant,

"Facebook to launch news subscription product. -TheStreet"

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by jonnathanson on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @07:14PM (#14808809)

It's a strange attributional convention used in headlines and links by some publications. I've never understood why, as it reads so confusingly, snd the reverse usage (source: topic) seems readily and intuitively available instead. But it's still common to see (topic: source) in certain house styles.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by draw_down on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:09PM (#14806479)

Yes, it is used to denote the source of a bit of news or a paraphrased quote.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by monfrere on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:32PM (#14807641)

This should not be downvoted. One sees the source before the colon more often than after the colon, but it is common to see the source after the colon in some publications. I see several instances (e.g., "Corporate lobbying helped derail border tax: senior Republican") on the Reuters homepage right now.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by draw_down on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @05:19PM (#14808048)

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by huntermeyer on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:17PM (#14806542)

When the source is leading it makes sense...

Source: Headline

This reads much better

> TheStreet: Facebook to launch news subscription product

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by draw_down on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:47PM (#14806791)

I just said that it's correct. Which it is. If you don't like it, great.

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