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Read your news on a proper news outlet with decent standards like Reuters, then you won't need to get angry about such digressions :P
Seriously, you have a choice, don't read articles by outlets with no real journalistic standards. Here's a great piece of reporting that was put out earlier today:
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/migration/#In terms of your question about headlines, the headline should accurately represent the story. Simple. Anything else is shoddy.
All this said, ultimately the output of any news organisation is driven by its clients. Sorry.
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Ha, cheers, Pete. I do wish I had a choice whether to read the Evening Standard or not, but I don't. I've never known Reuters to have the same coverage of London issues, or have I missed something? To be fair, the ES has its strengths, too. It's quite a good accumulator of local newspaper stories, for instance.
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All this said, ultimately the output of any news organisation is driven by its clients. Sorry.
For print media, I've noticed they're increasingly becoming a mouthpiece for their proprietor.
I realised print media has always had this to some extent, but it seems more so recently. Perhaps i'm a bit older and a bit more cynical.Used to like the Graun, but the anti-Corbyn deluge around the time of labour elections put me off.
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One other small thing I dislike are misleading headlines designed to make you think the story is more than what it really is. Here's an everyday example:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/woman-hijacked-bus-after-being-told-by-driver-to-stop-smoking-a3188421.html
Firstly, this is the London Evening Standard, so you assume that a story about such a trivial occurrence (it still interested me, as I'm interested in transportation in London, so I clicked) would be from London. It's not--it's from New York City. Obviously, they don't have to flag every story where it comes from, but the use of it here is blatant clickbait. The more crucial piece of information that's withheld is that the 'woman' in question was a former bus driver. 'Former bus driver "hijacks" bus and drives it four blocks' wouldn't quite have the same ring. I may be wrong, but I do think headlines used to be more complete.
Other methods have not changed, e.g. having a hook for a story and then only coming to it near the end of an article--always easily over-ridden once you've realised that in order to read what drew you in you merely have to skip to the end--has been around for a long time, but I think since there's been the disconnect between clickable headline and clicked-through-to article that headlines are often designed to mislead readers into clicking on something really not very interesting.
(Journalists, please correct me if that's wrong.)
Anyway, it's just a petty annoyance.