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Stupefacto

(36 posts) Sun Sep 15, 2013, 05:56 AM Sep 2013

HuffPo made me believe the UN Chief accused Assad of chemical weapons use [View all]

huffington Post Headline: UN Report To Confirm Chemical Weapons Used In Syria Attack As Ban Ki-Moon Accuses Assad Of Crimes Against Humanity

The chemical use confirmation next to the crimes against humanity sentence made me believe the UN found that Assad was responsible for the use of chemical weapons that has led to so much controversy.

Fortunately, I read the rest and yup, the Huffington Post was engaging on "link-bait," which is the practice of posting crappy teasing titles aimed at bringing lots and lots of fools to a website via a big, bold misleading headline.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/13/un-confirms-syria-chemical-weapons_n_3921424.html

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HuffPo made me believe the UN Chief accused Assad of chemical weapons use [View all] Stupefacto Sep 2013 OP

They have history of that--not to mention wrong headlines or those that link to articles hlthe2b Sep 2013 #1

As Jon Stew would say... trumad Sep 2013 #2

Want it a bit more formal? Here it is. Igel Sep 2013 #3

The first paragraphs support the headline. What did you find that doesn't? pnwmom Sep 2013 #4

I posted about this example of HuffPo's misleading writing Skip Intro Sep 2013 #5