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More AP/Yahoo Headline Games: "Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease-fire"

Associated Press headline: Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease-fire

Regular readers know that a favorite pastime of mine is busting Yahoo! and the AP for their misleading or outright lying headlines. Sometimes it's the AP's own headlines, other times Yahoo! reveals their own bias by changing a perfectly good AP headline to a misleading or lying one, often only for the purpose of displaying it on their home page (to mislead headline skimmer types). (For a few examples see here, here, here, and here)

The blame for today's example rests on the AP's shoulders, because as we see here other's picking up the story are using the same headline. Worse than the fact that the AP is up to the old tricks again, is the fact that I wasn't the one who found it this time! Credit for today's find goes to 7 Deadly Sins who I was linked to by Byran at HotAir. Great find guys, as you'll see from my links above, this is definitely a type of bias I enjoy exposing. There are way to many headline readers out there, and the MSM knows it.

Here's a screen cap of Yahoo!'s home page, incase they decide to change it (which is unlikely anyway). Eventually it will be bumped off of the home page, but they never respond to emails or anything, so don't bother. (image links to story)

If you check out the story, you'll see that these are actually rockets launched by Hezbollah at Israel, but they didn't reach. So these are rockets originating in Lebanon, staying in Lebanon. How hard could it be to write a headline that accurately describes the situation?

What media bias?

*UPDATE*
At least Fox News did the right thing here and took the identical story, and applied a proper headline: Hezbollah Rockets Fall Inside Southern Lebanon As Citizens Return to Battered Region

Related:
Stout Republican, The Jawa Report

 

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