Comments on: Dear Huffington Post http://stevengharms.com/dear-huffington-post My Blog Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:27:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The League http://stevengharms.com/dear-huffington-post/comment-page-1#comment-2010 The League Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:19:40 +0000 http://stevengharms.com/dear-huffington-post#comment-2010 <p>Sadly, this isn't just the Huffington Post. Other news sources might be more likely to pull out the thesaurus before posting a headline, but they ALL beef up the actual events behind the headline. Or, more to the point, spend a lot of time printing headlines about what this guy said about that guy rather than headlines saying what's actually happening. It's not "Obama presents economic plan", it's "GOP heavy hitters slam Obama economic plan". It's never "Scientists put forth theory of evolution", its "Creationists slam scientists' 'Theory' of evolution".</p> <p>There is no journalism but yellow.</p> Sadly, this isn’t just the Huffington Post. Other news sources might be more likely to pull out the thesaurus before posting a headline, but they ALL beef up the actual events behind the headline. Or, more to the point, spend a lot of time printing headlines about what this guy said about that guy rather than headlines saying what’s actually happening. It’s not “Obama presents economic plan”, it’s “GOP heavy hitters slam Obama economic plan”. It’s never “Scientists put forth theory of evolution”, its “Creationists slam scientists’ ‘Theory’ of evolution”.

There is no journalism but yellow.

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