Giving up so soon? I was still holding back on showing you that you had no basis for your statements. Remember what you just said, "It's universally agreed upon to not fucking do it if you want to be taken seriously as someone who puts ink to a piece of paper."?


I'm guessing that you have never heard of the American Copy Editors Society, or of their website, copydesk.org. I'm also guessing that you have never heard of their headline contest, the National Headline Contest. It has two categories, one for individual headlines and the other for staff headlines.

In 2011, The New York Times only got third place, but several of their entries had interrogative headlines (as well as others having declarative), like this one:


One of those pesky interrogative headlines from second place for Staff, the Los Angeles Times, also happened to get first place for individual writing headlines:


The first place for Staff went to the Dallas Morning News, which had more than one interrogative headline, but this is my favorite:


These guys must not have gone to your high school.

Your stated opinion should have just been that you prefer declarative headlines. That would have been something that was not debatable.