01-03-2018, 12:06 PM
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Misleading headlines
Do you get sick of reading misleading headlines in newspapers and online? I'm not talking about fake news, I'm sure we can all recognise that; I mean the deliberately misleading headlines designed to over dramatize.Two stories I have seen in recent weeks:
'Major accident at Heathrow airport'.
It was actually a crash between two airport vehicles resulting in a man sadly losing his life.
'Ant and Dec' leave Saturday night take away'
It was actually little Ant and Dec (not that I watch it, honest)
MSN news which appears at the top of my page is particularly bad for this sort of thing.
I watched the ITV news headlines last night and Alastair Stewart seemed so excited about the 'Red warnings' he could barley sit still in his chair.
01-03-2018, 12:14 PM
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Re: Misleading headlines
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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Do you get sick of reading misleading headlines in newspapers and online? I'm not talking about fake news, I'm sure we can all recognise that; I mean the deliberately misleading headlines designed to over dramatize.Two stories I have seen in recent weeks:
'Major accident at Heathrow airport'.
It was actually a crash between two airport vehicles resulting in a man sadly losing his life.
'Ant and Dec' leave Saturday night take away'
It was actually little Ant and Dec (not that I watch it, honest)
MSN news which appears at the top of my page is particularly bad for this sort of thing.
I watched the ITV news headlines last night and Alastair Stewart seemed so excited about the 'Red warnings' he could barley sit still in his chair.
01-03-2018, 12:15 PM
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Re: Misleading headlines
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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It must be brilliant for them to actually report some proper news after making stuff up or trying to make some boring occurence sound interesting to justify thousands of journalists jobs. The trouble with 24 hour news coverage is:- There might not be any news for twenty four hours some days....
01-03-2018, 05:03 PM
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Re: Misleading headlines
Originally Posted by longdogs
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true. You can always tell when there's no news because the first item is about politics.
01-03-2018, 05:25 PM
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Re: Misleading headlines
I agree often the headlines don't have any link to the story at all these days.I use a google news feed they are dreadful you see a head line someone stormed off a tv show or abused a TV host only to read in the text after you clicked on head line, that the walk out was a joke and the abuse was just people messing around. I'd have still read the stories if they had put an honest headline as I am interested in those shows.
01-03-2018, 05:31 PM
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Re: Misleading headlines
I hate it too when you click on the story and it presents you with slides, you have to click every slide to get the next picture or continuance of the article... the slides go slowly in the hope you will be tempted by all the advertisement's surrounding them. zz zz zz
02-03-2018, 11:32 AM
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Re: Misleading headlines
Originally Posted by summer
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I hate it too when you click on the story and it presents you with slides, you have to click every slide to get the next picture or continuance of the article... the slides go slowly in the hope you will be tempted by all the advertisement's surrounding them. zz zz zz
02-03-2018, 01:45 PM
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Re: Misleading headlines
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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That is so annoying. I once clicked on 'Susan Tully as she looks now'. Fifty odd pictures in I gave up.
02-03-2018, 03:08 PM
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Re: Misleading headlines
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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What's really annoying is if you stick with it they have told a pack of lies to begin with, they usually look absolutely fine for a person of their age. Oddly haven't stayed exactly the same as when they were 17 !
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