The importance of reading the article

[squealpiggy]

Wait so to understand something we should read the article and not just the headline??


Squealpiglet the smartest man on a boxing forum strikes again.

If you read the comments on the article you'll see that not many people read the actual article. They're already composing their incoherent rant before they've even finished reading the headline!

[The Noose]

Its good old fashioned laziness. We love a big headline. the bigger the better. People jump the gun all the time. Happens a lot with threads here. But its ****ed up when people are doing it with news articles about war.
The influence of the media. Scary how public opinion can be so easily swayed.

[squealpiggy]

Its good old fashioned laziness. We love a big headline. the bigger the better. People jump the gun all the time. Happens a lot with threads here. But its ****ed up when people are doing it with news articles about war.
The influence of the media. Scary how public opinion can be so easily swayed.

They're not really swaying anything. That's the point. These headlines expertly play on already existing ill-informed indignation. I could make a headline that would court outrage without actually being meaningful, like:

Convicted child molesters vote Democrat

Now the headline seems to be suggesting that voting Democrat is something child molesters do and by extension that the child molester vote is something courted by Democrats. When all the headline actually means is that more than one child molester has voted Democrat.

It's meaningless but people are already primed to contribute outrage.