Originally posted by: osubuckeye4
Date: May 09, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/misleading-headlines.54462/
NicoSuave said:
Ummmmm..... What exactly is the problem here? Are you upset that a higher percentage of black people voted last year than white people, or are you upset that a website article wasn't as specific as you would've liked?
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I couldn't care less about voting trends.
I just hate it when news outlets post intentionally misleading headlines.
Like when a headline says, "Killer snowstorm taking lives!" and then you open up the article and read that some 87 year old lady passed away because her heating went out. It wasn't really the snowstorm that took her life... it was the fact that her heating went out and she was old.
Or the articles every year about shark attacks. The media will write something like, "Shark Attack Epidemic Spreading!" and then you will read the article and find that 3 people have died all year, which is actually on par with every other year that shark attack deaths have been reported.
In this case the outlet obviously knew that anyone who saw that headline would think, "wait, what? More black people than white people voted? That can't be right... only like 12% of the country is black", and click on the link.
