Weekly Example of Media Bias - May 27, 2015
1. Mr. Anderson concludes his post by asking: "The question is this: if publishers and article writers know that readers retain information from the headline more than anything else in the article, don’t they have a responsibility to avoid headlines that bend the truth?"
Usually an editor has final say on the headlines.
a) What responsiblity do you think publishers/editors have to provide accurate headlines that are not misleading?
b) Having read this post, what responsibility do you think you as the reader now have to read the news with discernment?