Thursday, December 11, 2008

Love those headlines

CTV...
Top court says Ottawa broke law in financing EI

CBC...
Government broke law on EI financing in 3 years: top court

G&M...
Ottawa broke law in financing EI

The Star...
EI financing ruled illegal by top court

How they should read if they were honest and did not want to mislead...

Top court says Liberals broke law in financing EI

Liberal government broke law on EI financing in 3 years: top court

Liberals broke law in financing EI

This is why surfing headlines can lead to misinformation.
Always read the flipping articles, not just the headlines...

2 comments:

Candace said...

I'm with you on that one - of course, ignored by everyone because they'd rather talk about Iggy or the proposed(maybe)bailout.

Pat Patterson said...

Or the subheading as well. In fact skip through 75% of the article to the last two or three paragraphs and then find out what the actual facts of the article were. I ususally refer to this part of the article as the "Oh, by they ways."