When I was in J-school, there was a really beautiful system for news articles. The job of the headline was to tell you what the article was about, in the most succinct yet meaningful way possible. Then the story itself was organized such that the most important information was in the opening sentence, the lede, and the most salient facts were in the first paragraphs, with supporting details and background information listed at the end. This was known as the inverted pyramid. That way, if you were in a hurry and just wanted the broad strokes, you could just read the first couple of paragraphs and skim the rest. If you wanted detailed information, you simply kept reading. Also it was easy for a rushed editor to know where to cut if he was constrained for space (in a print world that was a consideration): you just cut from the bottom.

Now the headline is there to entice you into clicking by arousing your curiosity and the story is organized to keep you on the page. It's deliberately designed to waste your time to optimize ad revenue. Capitalism ruined journalism.

What's weird is originally the title had this: "Trump Says He Knows More Than Anyone In The World, With 1 Exception (But Not Really)"

They also tried to get him to say his favorite verse or whatever and he deflects saying he loves all of it. Like a 3rd grader doing a book report on a book he's never read

At some point "pathological liar says new lie" has to stop being a news story, right?

It wouldn't be news, if that pathological liar wasn't in one of the most powerful positions on the planet.

It’d be great if it was an actual news story

I’m the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like

On my knees day and night scoring points for the afterlife

Im the best at being humble. My humble is among the greats - calculon

Why did I read this in David Byrne’s voice?

Weird manifestation of humility at the end there.

I feel like I'm living inside of a The Onion article.

Not exactly a stunning revelation, when it didn't begin or middle that well either.