Soldiers With Automatic Weapons Checking IDs at a Social Security Office in Florida

[MineralMan]

28. No, I care a great deal. That's why it's so important to get

things right. The whole article is wasted because the site where you found it wrote a headline that doesn't reflect the contents of the story. And people all over the internet are posting that story with that headline. Ridicule follows, since the main points in the headline are false. The author? The author works for a newspaper, not for that website, and the newspaper had an accurate headline. You're copying and pasting a copy and paste. Go find the actual source. Why rely on bogus blogs that write headlines that don't even match the story? You want the author. Go to the original source. Their headline was accurate. And you have a link to the original source in your OP. Did you not click it? Why copy and paste from a secondary source, when you have the orginal in front of you?

What don't you understand about accuracy being a critical factor when spreading information? When things are distorted as far as they are with that headline, the entire post comes under suspicion.

The original source is available. It's in your OP. There's no need to use a source that overstates the headline, then goes right ahead and posts a story that doesn't match the headline on its two strongest points.

You think I'm ridiculing the idea that armed men in uniform shouldn't be outside our Social Security offices? I'm not doing that in any way. I don't think they should be there either, but that deliberately erroneous headline makes a mockery of truthful reporting, and it's obvious the minute you begin to read. Why do you quote for sources so stupid as to do a boneheaded thing like that? Why not quote from the original newspaper story with its accurate headline?

You do your own cause a disservice by using bogus sources. Sorry, but that is simply the truth. And then, when you are informed that you've screwed up, you get angry at the messenger. Just read what you post. If there's something wrong with it, search a little longer and find a reliable source. How hard is that?