Headlines and facts

[BobbyJ1956]

Daily Mail today has a headline yelling "City rebellion! players seething", naming DeJong, Kompany, and Richards as unhappy with their contracts following reports that Aguero will get 200,000 a week. But then the article itself makes clear that while DeJong's talks are stalled, Kompany is "mulling over" (= about to sign) a new contract and Richards doesn't want to play anywhere else. Do newspapers really think people are so dim they won't notice the difference between screaming headlines and actual facts?

[brite blu sky]

in answer to the question, evidently they don't. I look at it like the packaging of products, just designed to get noticed by people in a hurry, grab it and then find out when they get home that it doesn't do what it suggested it would.

Junk marketing treats people like idiots, this is no different. The saving grace is that companies who do cheap tricks have cheap shite products.. so ironically they are just advertising the fact in their methods, people are not as stupid as they look and are getting more saavy to this all the time.

Lets face it the daily mail is complete wall to wall shite, written and managed by dumb knobs. Sad really that all that energy and time and paper and ink is spent just to produce emergency bog paper and litter.

[Slim]

Chalk and cheese.

Apples and oranges.

Journalists and integrity.

Headlines and accuracy.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

Earlier this week when all the media were in 'uproar' about SuperMario's supposed 'showboating' act against LA Galaxy, the Daily Mirror printed an eight photo sequence of how he ran onto the ball and then did an 180 degree turn to backheel the ball wide of the goal.

However, in the last two or three photos in this supposed sequence, they airbrushed out all the defenders to make it look as though SuperMario was standing alone in front of the goal when he did the backheel.

Journalists and integrity indeed.