Their headline, which was probably too long for HN, is entirely accurate.
It would be useful if people stopped blaming the media without verifying first.
It would be useful if people stopped blaming the media without verifying first.
Journalists aim for clarity in communication, an ethos that is infringed on increasingly more as web-only publications live or die off clicks.
I agree that we shouldn't "blame the media", but we can blame Business Insider for playing with ambiguity in this headline's structure.
And I'll take All The Downvotes -- this current trend of blaming media for everything is absolute horseshit. Yesterday I watched everyone claim the media caused the run on masks and hand sanitizer...by reporting on the shortage after the fact. And the run on grocery stores...by reporting on the runs after the fact.
People love blaming the messenger. People love believing that correlation=causation.
The media reports that the DJIA dropped = clearly the media made it drop (and not the enormous number of indicators pointing to bad times ahead).
And it would be harmless -- if incredibly stupid -- but in this spirit of blaming the media for everything there exists a vacuum in which actual liars and exploiters fill the void. See: The Trump administration. MAGA. Absolute vile human beings like Limbaugh. This is what "Hurr the media isn't saying what I want in exactly the way I want" creates.
If the average reader doesn't even have the reading comprehension and attention span to read to the end of the headline, I don't think any amount of baby fooding of information is going to make any difference.