The BBC's news feed is useful. Click a button, choose your story. Simple, quick, targeted. Unfortunately, the feed headlines aren't always descriptive, and some are just plain deceptive.
Take, for example, this headline: Billionaire Stanford 'not guilty'. He only got arrested a week ago! How could he be judged not guilty already! Except, the article is about how he is pleading not guilty. Is it too much to add one word? It changes the entire sense of the phrase by removing "pleading".
Also, on the feed, there tends to be five or so comment/analysis type pages for each day. Those headlines are the worst. Honestly, Feature One Through Five is more descriptive. Here are some of today's - "Final Moments", "In crisis". Final moments of what? What's in crisis?
Grr.
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Methinks their headline is designed to make people who know that he was arrested last week angry about it, and thus more likely to read the article.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair though, the headline you gave this post was "why?" :P