Quotulatiousness

June 17, 2019

QotD: Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

Filed under: Humour, Media, Quotations — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 01:00

This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word “no.” The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.

Ian Betteridge, “TechCrunch: Irresponsible journalism”, Techechnovia.co.uk, 2009-02-23. (Link goes to archived page at the Wayback Machine.)

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