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Hence the way journalists love to misinform people: a headline and first paragraph that pushes their bias and narrative, while the facts that completely mitigat
by cm2187 6y ago
Hence the way journalists love to misinform people: a headline and first paragraph that pushes their bias and narrative, while the facts that completely mitigate if not contradict the start of the article are buried somewhere in the middle. How to lie without lying, better than a legal footnote.
- gmac 6y agoThis is exactly what I’ve noticed lately. Is it a known/named phenomenon? Do you have a reference?
- martin_a 6y ago> Is it a known/named phenomenon? I think it's just called "journalism" these days. I find it hard to find publications without clickbaity stuff like this.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoI'd say it's marketing/business rather than journalism, the journalism takes something of a back seat - like the role of music in hit factories.
- cm2187 6y agoIt's not wrong, but I do not see it used only for clickbaits. It is also largely used to push political opinions. And these are editorial decisions.
- dekhn 6y agoDunno if there is a name for it. See https://www.quora.com/Why-are-newspaper-headlines-written-by-copy-editors-and-not-by-reporters-and-how-did-this-practice-begin-historically https://www.quora.com/Why-are-newspaper-headlines-written-by... (although this is incomplete; it omits the narrative pushing).
- cptnapalm 6y ago"Burying the lede" - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bury_the_lede#:~:text=(idiomatic%2C%20US%2C%20journalism),reform%20until%20the%2019th%20paragraph https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bury_the_lede#:~:text=(idioma....
- 5etho 6y agono, the journalists do not love misinform. If that was the case they wouldnt be journalists by definition. It may be 1:1 as 'no true scotsman' but this is what it is
- ThinkingGuy 6y agoBear in mind that headlines, at least, are frequently composed by editor rather than by the author of the article.