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Case in point...
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/justic...tml?hpt=hp_bn1
When I saw the headline on CNN's main page it read "Teen gets jail for impersonation."
"Holy shit weasels!" I thought and clicked on the link to read what I thought was going to be something about how someone in some form of power got a hair up their ass and had someone arrested for making fun of them.
When I hear impersonation I tend to think "This is my impersonation of [celebrity]".
The article actually has the headline of "Florida teen gets a year in jail for impersonating a health worker" which I couldn't care less about. He committed a crime, he got caught, he's going to be serving his time. Cut! Print! Check the gate! Moving on.
But this is just one more example of how the media pulls these sorts of tricks. They love to use a short headline that is designed to catch your eye, arouse your wrath and make you click that link only to have it be something else entirely that you may or may not have cared about.
@#$%ing news media.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/justic...tml?hpt=hp_bn1
When I saw the headline on CNN's main page it read "Teen gets jail for impersonation."
"Holy shit weasels!" I thought and clicked on the link to read what I thought was going to be something about how someone in some form of power got a hair up their ass and had someone arrested for making fun of them.
When I hear impersonation I tend to think "This is my impersonation of [celebrity]".
The article actually has the headline of "Florida teen gets a year in jail for impersonating a health worker" which I couldn't care less about. He committed a crime, he got caught, he's going to be serving his time. Cut! Print! Check the gate! Moving on.
But this is just one more example of how the media pulls these sorts of tricks. They love to use a short headline that is designed to catch your eye, arouse your wrath and make you click that link only to have it be something else entirely that you may or may not have cared about.
@#$%ing news media.
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