Well, here's a rebuttal. First off you stated Google News, which algorithmically selected these headlines/articles. Let's put aside the fact that they may be

Well, here's a rebuttal. First off you stated Google News, which algorithmically selected these headlines/articles. Let's put aside the fact that they may be even somewhat personalized (it doesn't need to be for the purposes of the discussion). Quite simply most Americans don't get their news online from Google News. You have Facebook in large part, as well as an array of other ways in which information is fed. I get headlines popping up on the sides of articles, for example. Another commenter pointed out the generation of headlines [edit: emphasis on generation, not just selection]. Well, that is one of the main tickets here, particularly to our legitimate criticisms of media. This article does a fantastic job of explaining the process of headline generation, citing examples and backing up the claims: https://medium.com/@tobiasrose/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511488de https://medium.com/@tobiasrose/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511...