For the sake of sensationalism
I don’t get some journalists. I realize that it might be every journalists dream have their story read and passed around but some take it to pretty extreme ends.
This morning, for example, I woke up to a headline that read “Hezbollah sinks Australian warship“. From the sound of it, I figured something horrible had happened while I was asleep and Hezbollah had killed hundreds of Australian service men. I clicked the link only to find out that this was untrue and that Hezbollah was only doctoring photos.
This is a lot better, in my opinion, than killing people. The only purpose of the headline is to further demonize Hezbollah. What if somebody like myself had only read the headline? I would be walking around with misinformation, an offense similar to that of Hezbollah.
So newspapers, please do everybody a favor and cut down on doctoring headlines, especially if the article itself is about forgery.
I should also probably mention that it is my dream to, one day, become a journalist.
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