madmallard wrote:
i dont think the headline was the problem.
it was the really ambiguous line inside the article about 'sources say he could be charged.' What sources? Who? When?
its really just poor journalism.
I agree. It is poor journalism. Why was that thrown in there? To create controversy. Controversy sells papers. Looks like it worked too. Everyone was all bent out of shape about charges that were never filed and were never likely to be filed.
But this particular bit of poor journalism gave a slant to the story that, it could be argued, was sympathetic to conservative issues. Yet, no one ever says "look at the conservative bias in the news!"