Sure, their headline is accurate, but the way it is written creates ambiguity by relegating the factual turn to the end. Headlines are often skimmed and propagated. Unless every viewer reads the headline in full and every aggregator replicates it exactly, the headline may be misleading.
Journalists aim for clarity in communication, an ethos that is infringed on increasingly more as web-only publications live or die off clicks.
I agree that we shouldn't "blame the media", but we can blame Business Insider for playing with ambiguity in this headline's structure.
So not only are we not expecting people to read the articles, we have to also expect them not to read to the end of the headline?
If the average reader doesn't even have the reading comprehension and attention span to read to the end of the headline, I don't think any amount of baby fooding of information is going to make any difference.
This is absurdly demanding. The headline is clear. The article is clear. But because someone can draw the wrong conclusion you blame the media? Give me a break.
And I'll take All The Downvotes -- this current trend of blaming media for everything is absolute horseshit. Yesterday I watched everyone claim the media caused the run on masks and hand sanitizer...by reporting on the shortage after the fact. And the run on grocery stores...by reporting on the runs after the fact.
People love blaming the messenger. People love believing that correlation=causation.
The media reports that the DJIA dropped = clearly the media made it drop (and not the enormous number of indicators pointing to bad times ahead).
And it would be harmless -- if incredibly stupid -- but in this spirit of blaming the media for everything there exists a vacuum in which actual liars and exploiters fill the void. See: The Trump administration. MAGA. Absolute vile human beings like Limbaugh. This is what "Hurr the media isn't saying what I want in exactly the way I want" creates.
Journalists aim for clarity in communication, an ethos that is infringed on increasingly more as web-only publications live or die off clicks.
I agree that we shouldn't "blame the media", but we can blame Business Insider for playing with ambiguity in this headline's structure.