https://redstate.com/brandongreife/2011/01/06/whistling-past-the-graveyard-of-municipal-debt/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usThu, 11 Jun 2026 14:16:50 -0400<![CDATA[Here’s an insider’s tip into most of the articles you read: writers don’t write their headlines. The reasons are simple. The first is an esoteric concept known as SEO – search engine optimization. This is the science of fitting as many buzz words into a headline as is humanly possible. The second is the desperate desire for clicks. Writers, or at least the good ones tend to want to write well-balanced, well-reasoned articles. But in this soundbyte world we live in, getting people to actually click on the article is the real goal. In that regard, controversy and strong opinions do much better than reason and balance. So the headline is there to do just that – suck you in.]]>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:13:40 -0500<![CDATA[brandongreife]]>https://redstate.com/brandongreife/2011/01/06/whistling-past-the-graveyard-of-municipal-debt-n37515