Biased/nonsense headlines
Came across a few headlines in the recent past. Of course IBNLIVE leads the chart with their pro-congress anti-BJP headlines.Here they follow:
1) 'Advani did nothing to save Babri'
Why cannot they change the headline to: "Attention seeker tries to defame Advani over Ayodhya.". Well I agree this is the other extreme. But a good headline could have been : "Person testifies against Advani, court verdict pending."
2) BSP shows Sonia's photo with money garland
Alternately, they could have just said : "After Maya, it's Sonia, age of woman's obsession with money". But instead they chse to put the blame on BSP. This is unfair reporting. And it is the same people who had such a headline about Advani.
3) A similar stance was taken on Modi: "Modi grilled for over 9 hours by SIT". It could as well have been " Modi patiently answers all questions for 9 hours to make sure all issues are addressed in 1 day"
Anyway, these were political. Here are some nonsense ones from ToI and BBC.
4) This one is mentioned by Amit Verma of Indiauncut as well. News by Times Of India's midday: "Oshiwara gay teen killed" Just read the article and see if it was really a gay issue.
But this last one justifies it all. A headline from king of news BBC itself. This news was most read on BBC for almost 24 hours and on 2nd for a long time too.
5) "Man used p**** to assault female police officer " If you read through, you will realize it's a classic case of getting super drunk and apologizing later. Imagine this being the most read when news like US Health care, global warming etc are doing rounds. I guess this proves why we get headlines like above 4.
4 comments:
Ha Ha, this is what you would call 'negative publicity'. If the headline isn't catchy enough, who would read the article?
King of news, BBC! Yay!
As Anupama points out, its not just about the headlines, but because people want such headlines? I am not sure. But the trend is very disturbing. Gone are the days of sane, decent and well-written English news papers that parents and teachers recommend kids to read. The Hindu is still a bit OK, but definitely below what it was..
I find The Hindu better than many. It has got its own ideological bias which I find irritating. However it is only their ideological bias which shows up in their headlines. The Hindu does not attempt to catch eyes with saucy headlines.
On a slightly different note, The Hindu seems to be the only newspaper which does not have horoscope/raashifol/astrology columns. I find that impressive.
Dude, Objective of Indian news channels in Entertainment , not news. So i prefer other sources
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