September 30, 2011
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Filed by trumwill from Newsroom

Unbelievable & Outrageous Headline!

Don’t you hate it when you see an article with a headline that suggests something rather outrageous (pertaining, to say, some policy), then when you read the story it’s actually a rather reasonable policy?

It makes it so you just can’t trust outrageous headlines anymore. And you have to read the article. Suck.

5 Comments

  1. If it was not for OUTRAGEOUS headlines my site would have 50% less readers.

    Comment by Logtar — September 30, 2011 @ 2:46 pm

  2. Yes, I hate it very much, and I’ve correspondingly grown to hate for-profit news because they do this so often. I have actually been at the point for a few years now where, when I read a headline that seems outrageous, I automatically assume that if I read the article, it will be something far more reasonable than the headline makes it appear.

    And I have to say that unfortunately, some of the Christian and especially some of the pro-life sources that I read are very, very guilty of this. They do it because it works, but I’m always disappointed.

    Comment by Samson — September 30, 2011 @ 4:13 pm

  3. There’s really nothing new about this.

    http://i.imgur.com/xN293.gif

    Comment by dufu — October 1, 2011 @ 8:08 am

  4. Dufu, but back then people weren’t immediately prepping blog posts based on the outrageousness of the title.

    Comment by trumwill — October 2, 2011 @ 6:53 pm

  5. As a general rule, if the link points to a .uk website, I won’t click on it.

    Comment by Mike Hunt — October 3, 2011 @ 8:35 pm

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