{"id":44244,"date":"2019-06-17T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44244"},"modified":"2019-06-16T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T12:20:49","slug":"qotd-betteridges-law-of-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/06\/17\/qotd-betteridges-law-of-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Betteridge&#8217;s Law of Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word &#8220;no.&#8221; The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don\u2019t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Betteridge, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090226202006\/http:\/\/www.technovia.co.uk\/2009\/02\/techcrunch-irresponsible-journalism.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<em>TechCrunch<\/em>: Irresponsible journalism&#8221;, <em>Techechnovia.co.uk<\/em><\/a>, 2009-02-23. (Link goes to archived page at the <em>Wayback Machine<\/em>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word &#8220;no.&#8221; The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don\u2019t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,41],"tags":[1287,477,82,213],"class_list":["post-44244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-betteridgeslaw","tag-magazines","tag-murphy","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bvC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48984,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44244\/revisions\/48984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}