The Dumb Headline Questions Are Back

For a moment there, I thought I had defeated them

Good Evening:

Okay, so I had been noticing for a few weeks that the number of dumb rhetorical question headlines in the New York Times had dropped dramatically. Some readers had noticed too. One even left a comment wondering if my campaign of ridicule of these headlines had helped eradicate them.

I confess I was beginning to wonder the same thing. The Was…