Delaware Liberal

Example of News Journal Idiocy #2,097,498

Headlines are supposed to accurately reflect the content of the story.   Yeah, you want to grab their attention, but you cannot do it by devising a headline that is false after you read the story.  For if you do that, then all you are as a news organization is a tabloid.

Case in point:

The two headlines make me think current Maryland Lt. Governor Anthony Brown (D), a rising young star in the Democratic Party nationally, will be traveling to Minneapolis to speak at the Republican convention.  That is what I thought when I read the headline.  I was shocked, and so I went into to read the story further.   And the truth is that FORMER Lt. Governor  Michael Steele (R) will be at the GOP convention.  That make sense, what with Steele being a Republican and all (although half of all Republican elected officials in the country are refusing to attend the convention because of their fear of being tarred with Bush and the GOP brand). 

Bad News Journal.  Bad.

 

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