Most of the time I'd agree with you. But this is the Engadget. They're just too successful/savvy and established for this particular instance not to be delibera

Most of the time I'd agree with you. But this is the Engadget. They're just too successful/savvy and established for this particular instance not to be deliberate. There is a lot of truth in much of what you said, but headlines specifically aren't really a product of the newsgathering process. They're kind of a microcosm of journalism and treated completely differently than the rest of the article for a variety of reasons, historical and modern. More to the point, in the admittedly small number of newsrooms I've been in, the headlines were hand crafted by fairly senior editors. In any case, the truth is probably somewhere between disingenuous and negligent, but the outcome is the same: more traffic.