Re:India scientists dismiss Einstein theories
by simonh on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:57AM
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Sp you agree about the BBCs bias, but you also can't honestly complain. I do agree with your point that it's important to expose this issue and I think the BBC did a good job here. Headlines are necessarily short and the very first sentence in the article makes it perfectly clear there is disagreement on this among scientists in India and there are scientists with integrity fighting the good fight for science. In fact the headline and first sentence sum up the whole issue very succinctly.
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Re:India scientists dismiss Einstein theories
by bakul on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:06PM
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"In fact the headline and first sentence sum up the whole issue very succinctly."
Surely you jest.
An April, 2016 academic study of bit.ly links shared on Twitter to BBC, CNN, Fox News, New York Times and Huffington Post articles found that 59 percent of the links were never clicked. And another study of push-through news alerts to mobile phones found that “People click on the alert about half the time.”
Source: https://honestreporting.com/tag/misleading-headlines/
What this means is most people only read the headline and not even the first line.