(05-15-2017 08:37 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 08:00 AM)bullet Wrote:  https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein....iip5AdQYW

Fake news on grand jury.

"...The site had its most significant exposure yet this week. As confusion swirled in Washington Wednesday following Trump’s firing of Comey, Democratic Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey went on CNN to make an explosive claim: A grand jury had been empaneled in New York to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia. (Another grand jury investigation, in Virginia, has been reported by CNN.)
Among the outlets that eagerly picked up the news were the Palmer Report and the Twitter feed of Louise Mensch, who has accused hundreds of people of being Russian agents, often with no evidence.
And what were Markey’s sources for this alarming claim? According to a Guardian reporter and the Daily Caller, none other than the Palmer Report and Mensch themselves. Hours after making the claim, Markey was forced to apologize for spreading unsubstantiated information, and, through a spokesman, to reveal that he had no direct knowledge of any New York investigation...."

Does not matter if it was wrong because it's true...100% truth. If you asked 100 CNN watchers 95 of them only remember being told President Trump fired Comey because there's a grand jury investigation on Trump and his ties to Russia.

That is what CNN and other bank on today...SOUND BITE

I bet you could put a article on Yahoo or CNN with the title "New info leaked from Congress. Trump will get indited for his connections with Russia"

then put in the article Trump had a doorman that was Russian and he lived in a shoe with his wife and 14 kids. Then go on to tell nursery rhymes...

over 75% would run with the head lines

People do not care about anything but sound bites and head lines and these rags know that. That's why you get people like we have on this board.

Yep. There have been studies done on this. The newspapers know it. It's VERY easy to tell what agenda they are pushing by scanning the headlines. Most people are stupid so that doesn't help either.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-...34d460a21d

Quote:So, roughly six in 10 people acknowledge that they have done nothing more than read news headlines in the past week. And, in truth, that number is almost certainly higher than that, since plenty of people won't want to admit to just being headline-gazers but, in fact, are.

Not political but relevant.

http://thesciencepost.com/study-70-of-fa...-headline/

Quote:Study: 70% of Facebook users only read the headline of science stories before commenting

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-k...-way-think

Quote:By now, everyone knows that a headline determines how many people will read a piece, particularly in this era of social media. But, more interesting, a headline changes the way people read an article and the way they remember it. The headline frames the rest of the experience.
....
Psychologists have long known that first impressions really do matter—what we see, hear, feel, or experience in our first encounter with something colors how we process the rest of it. Articles are no exception. And just as people can manage the impression that they make through their choice of attire, so, too, can the crafting of the headline subtly shift the perception of the text that follows. By drawing attention to certain details or facts, a headline can affect what existing knowledge is activated in your head. By its choice of phrasing, a headline can influence your mindset as you read so that you later recall details that coincide with what you were expecting.

Here's one specific to slate. They actually admit that most people don't get through the whole article. This is based on "scroll depth".

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology...ticle.html

It's actually kind of amazing that some of these sources would even allow a story like this to run. Of course, most people aren't going to read it all.