How To Write Headlines: A Washington ComPost-Based Tutorial

Here's what we get:

How Far Would A Million N95 Masks Go? It's Complicated, And This Is Why.

 

Improved:

How Far Would A Million N95 Masks Go? It's Complicated, And This Is Why.

You don't have to tell us that you're going to tells us about the topic of the article. We get that. That's what topics are. 

But of course this can also easily be improved:

How Far Would A Million N95 Masks Go? It's Complicated, And This Is Why.

 

We can ascertain that it's at least somewhat complicated on the grounds that the thing is unlikely to be on the front page of the Washington Post--even in its current fallen state--if the answer is entirely uninteresting. 

This is a pretty trivial complaint...but it's my blog.