# Check a Shakeup Headline's Verb Against the Governance Action ## Claim Check a leadership-shakeup headline's verb — ousted, fired, resigned, sidelined — against the governance action the story actually describes before repeating it. <!-- atomicity: 1 idea ✓ --> ## Scope & conditions - The verbs are not synonyms and carry different implications about who decided and whether it is reversible; a paid leave is none of the four. - Costs one read of the body, which is why it is worth doing every time rather than only when the claim matters. - The error propagates: a downstream outlet inherits the verb, not the action, which is how a leave becomes an ouster in three hops. - Applies to my own headlines at least as much as to anyone else's. ## Evidence From the thirteen-outlet Automattic cluster, where headline verbs ranged across ousted, forced, sidelined, and placed on leave for the same underlying board action. ## Links - [[A Headline's Framing Is a Claim the Body Must Still Support]] — the general form — this note is the leadership-coverage instance of it - [[A Summary of a Hedged Source Strips the Hedge]] — the same compression working on qualifications rather than on verbs - [[3. Resources/MOCs/Evidence & Claims Literacy MOC]] — the claims-literacy thread on framing that outruns the action. - [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/A Revert by Authority Needs a Stated Technical Reason Before It Reads as Technical]] — applied in: treat a revert as technical only if the person with authority states a technical reason on the record (The Repository, Rae Morey).