All over my news feed today is reference to a Russian ICBM called “Satan”. Yeah, I knew about it before the headlines. It’s an extremely capable ICBM replacing an earlier generation missile called the R-36M which was actually called the Satan. The new missile is named RS-28 Sarmat by Russia and has been designated the […]
The headline reads: North Carolina mother jailed for baptizing 2-year-old daughter. The reality is quite different. Kendra Stocks was jailed for violating a court order that gave the baby’s father final say in legal custody decisions including those of a religious nature. Stocks was specifically told by the judge not to have the Baptism without the […]
How Waking Up Early in the morning could be Counterproductive blares the misleading headline from PopSugar. Yeah, well, what they mean is not getting enough sleep is unhealthy. Duh. Exercise has nothing to do with the problem. The idea is that people get up early to exercise and this cuts into their regular sleep schedule. […]
The Headline Screams: UCLA Quarterback Josh Rosen: Raise the SAT Requirement at Alabama and See what kind of team they have. It seems like if you use a direct quote from someone it can’t possibly be a misleading headline but that’s exactly what happened in this case. What Rosen was talking about is the terrible […]
Japanese chess prodigy, 14, breaks 30-year winning streak record screams the headline. Yes, he is 14. Yes, he did break a winning streak record. No, it wasn’t chess. He plays chess and is reportedly good at it, but the streak was in a game called Shogi. What’s wrong with a headline saying he broke a […]
Stoned Assembly Line Workers Cost BMW $1 Million in One Day, Report Claims: Screams the misleading headline from TheDrive. The implication is BMW workers were high on marijuana and made some horrible mistake. This one’s a doozy. If you read the headline and the first paragraph you’ll assume the two BMW workers smoked a marijuana […]
This one is a doozy! Jordan Spieth tees off on Tiger Woods in Epic Shade Throwing reads the completely false and malicious headline from Sportsnaught and Vincent Frank. Clickbait at its absolute worst. Not only does the headline make it appear as if Spieth said something nasty about Tiger Woods but the article pretty much matches […]
Ah, one has to love those misleading headlines. This one involves Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and former Justice Antonin Scalia who passed away early in 2016. The headline intimates that Sotomayor was so angry at Scalia that she wanted to hit him with a baseball bat. Those are the words she uses but the […]
Technically the headline from For the Win at USA Today was accurate but I’m going to go ahead and call it my Misleading Headline of the Week anyway. Nick Saban blames USC for heated exchange between Alabama players reads the headline. The implication is that the head coach of Alabama was accusing the players of […]
I’m not sure if I’d call it a misleading headline so much as a clickbait sensational headline but Vox splashes the following headline: More and more women are now dying in childbirth, but only in America. The story, written by Sarah Frostenson, is quite informative and interesting. The headline leaves it up to the imagination […]
There is a very serious subject that gets a lot of news these days called Human Trafficking. A lot of really good people are donating huge amounts of money to stop this terrible scourge. The problem is that it largely isn’t happening in the United States. It is what is called a Moral Panic. Most people who […]
We have a winner. Paula Bolyard from Lifestyle Magazine wrote a hit article about Malia Obama attending the Lollapalooza music festival. The headline writer picked up on the general nastiness in the article and wrote the following headline. Malia Obama Caught on Video Twerking and Flashing the Crowd at Lollapalooza Malia did attend the event and was […]
The New York Post wins the Misleading Headline of the Week contest with this doozy. Nintendo shares plummet on fears Pokémon GO is worthless It’s true the stock did drop 18% but only after an initial run-up of 122% after the wildly successful Pokemon Go game was introduced. It’s a very natural bubble. People saw the […]
Scientists are About to Eat Radishes Grown in Martian Soil blares the headline. The implication is that we’ve grown Radishes on Mars or at the very least that we have Martian soil here on Earth that we used to grow some radishes. The reality, not so much. The radishes were grown in a nutrient poor […]
I just read an interesting story that is generating lots of outrage based on, in my opinion, a misleading headline. A young woman named Shania Clifford from Scioto, Ohio was the first of her gender to win the SkillsUSA Ohio masonry competition. She was then bumped from the competition as the headline blares: First female […]
Two of my favorite things, misleading headlines and sports, came together the other day and that makes me happy. In a football game between Toledo and Central Michigan the referee felt the need to admonish the Central Michigan cheerleaders for distracting the Toledo team as they neared the Central Michigan end zone. Both the headline and […]
The latest in my series of misleading headlines is a doozy. The headline seems to indicate that Antoinette Sullivan went to McDonald’s with friends to lament the fact that she was left at the altar. Nothing could be further form the truth. Her husband, with whom she has four children, and she got married in the […]
A news organization called The Complex had their first entry in my Misleading Headline of the week just this past week but they’ve already topped it with a story this week! Model Tries to Extort $2,000 From Jaromir Jagr With Post-Sex Selfie, Fails Because He DGAF blares the headline. I’m very old and I had to […]
In an attempt to make up for my lack of a Misleading Headline of the Week for the last few weeks; I’m posting a second one today Eugenio Suarez attempts to field a ball that defies physics screams the headline. Really a first rate Misleading Headline from Chris Cwik and Big League Stew. Not only […]
I’ve been derelict in my Misleading Headline duties for a few weeks, finishing up The Girl in Glass I: Apparition taking priority but I’m back with a doozy. It’s Shark Week on Discovery and that brings any story on sharks out of the woodwork and into the headlines. Amazing footage of sharks swimming in boiling […]