The problem is that we live in a headline culture (or as Henry Rollins has said we engage in “bumper sticker politics”) and treat a small snippet as unqualified fact, when in reality the people who write the headlines are stoking vastly incomplete information—they know it’s going to be interpreted a certain way. It’s calculated for clicks.
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '21
The problem is that we live in a headline culture (or as Henry Rollins has said we engage in “bumper sticker politics”) and treat a small snippet as unqualified fact, when in reality the people who write the headlines are stoking vastly incomplete information—they know it’s going to be interpreted a certain way. It’s calculated for clicks.