The Broken Chair: All You Need is a Headline

Since most people will just read a headline and not the whole article, you can learn a lot about how a journalist or the institution they work for wants you to feel about the content. 7 Deadly Sins and Hot Air have a perfect example of misleading headlines.

Headline: Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease-fire

What impression does that leave in your mind? That the rockets hitting Lebanon came from somewhere other than Lebanon, right? Which would be Israel. So the head implies that Israel has violated the cease-fire by firing rockets into Lebanon. That’s how I read it.

But that ain’t what happened.

Quote Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/14/misleading-headline-of-the-day-rockets-hit-lebanon-despite-cease-fire/

It was Hezbollah who actually fired the rockets.