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darin
08-09-2018, 08:00 AM
Misleading headline:

"Mollie Tibbetts mystery Deepens!"

http://a57.foxnews.com/hp.foxnews.com/images/2018/08/1024/427/214bd9a445d1dcfe849cd82c0696bd9f.jpg?tl=1&ve=1

FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Boyfriend’s brother describes scene inside home after Tibbetts vanished

Why it sucks.


Here is his description: "There was nothing wrong. Everything was normal"


(sigh)....

Nothing deepens. Nothing changes. Just a way to get people to click essentially the same story as yesterday.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/09/brother-mollie-tibbetts-boyfriend-says-no-sign-struggle-at-home-would-have-done-something.html
Black Diamond
08-09-2018, 11:38 AM
Misleading headline:

"Mollie Tibbetts mystery Deepens!"

http://a57.foxnews.com/hp.foxnews.com/images/2018/08/1024/427/214bd9a445d1dcfe849cd82c0696bd9f.jpg?tl=1&ve=1

FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Boyfriend’s brother describes scene inside home after Tibbetts vanished

Why it sucks.


Here is his description: "There was nothing wrong. Everything was normal"


(sigh)....

Nothing deepens. Nothing changes. Just a way to get people to click essentially the same story as yesterday.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/09/brother-mollie-tibbetts-boyfriend-says-no-sign-struggle-at-home-would-have-done-something.html
I learned a new word (at least for me) the other day. "Clickbait ". I think it applies here.
High_Plains_Drifter
08-09-2018, 01:56 PM
I learned a new word (at least for me) the other day. "Clickbait ". I think it applies here.
youtube is FULL of clickbait.
Gunny
08-09-2018, 09:21 PM
Misleading headline:

"Mollie Tibbetts mystery Deepens!"

http://a57.foxnews.com/hp.foxnews.com/images/2018/08/1024/427/214bd9a445d1dcfe849cd82c0696bd9f.jpg?tl=1&ve=1

FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Boyfriend’s brother describes scene inside home after Tibbetts vanished

Why it sucks.


Here is his description: "There was nothing wrong. Everything was normal"


(sigh)....

Nothing deepens. Nothing changes. Just a way to get people to click essentially the same story as yesterday.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/09/brother-mollie-tibbetts-boyfriend-says-no-sign-struggle-at-home-would-have-done-something.htmlJournalism gone wrong by design.