Misleading/wrong media headlines

[GordonH]

Can it still be considered a crash when the boat did not actual hit anything.
http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/12 ... nagan-Lake

[my5cents]

Can it still be considered a crash when the boat did not actual hit anything.
http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/12 ... nagan-Lake

This seems to be a case of not only misleading/wrong headlines, but a misleading wrong story
It seems that story, by Bill Everitt was fraught with problems. The "follow-up" was actually the "correction".
The captain swam to shore - He did not swim to shore
Civilian boaters attempted to tow his boat to shore - He was being spotted by his team on a commercial diving boat.

It wasn't a complicated story. A race boat, apparently being tested, flipped. The boat is constructed and designed such that the pilot/captain has to wait until the cockpit fills with water before he can exit the cockpit, much like a submerged car.

The pilot/captain had a team of support nearby and they assisted.

That of course leaves the question, how Mr Everitt could screw up such a simple story.

As for the headline, I think the use of the word "Mishap", would have worked much better.
"Mishap on Okanagan Lake"

As for the story's news worthiness, that even a bigger question.

[my5cents]

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#121211

Come on, a story about impaired driving in Vernon and you use a generic photo of a US police officer from http://www.thinkstockphotos.ca ?

[Bsuds]

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#121783

My first thought was someone died, but that was not the case.

[my5cents]

How about todays :

"Dozens of Soldiers Killed by ISIS"

When you read the article you see there were 160 soldiers killed.
http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#121842

If you had 160 marbles and someone asked you how many marbles you had, would you say "dozens" ?

[Glacier]

Here's a bad headline: Canada votes against UN resolution condemning glorification of Nazism!

In truth, they voted against the measure along with the Ukraine, and the USA because Russia had been able to get some weasel words in there so they could treat criticism of Russia in the same light as criticism of Nazis.

[flamingfingers]

Fire victim charged with murder
by The Canadian Press | Story: 131370 - Jan 24, 2015 / 1:10 pm

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#131370

This is all VERY confusing.... until you read more of the story.

[Xia33]

"Seized horses to be sold". Is not correct.....the 16 that were seized by spca are being rehomed....the other 100+, who are NOT emaciated, will be sold at auction

[Bsuds]

This is not Tesla it is one of it's founders who left the company a long time ago!

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#141242

[Bsuds]

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#141482

If he has all ready been found and is in custody why is he being "sought"

[Glacier]

Wow, even Castanet would be proud of this headline!

[ferri]

this isn't really misleading or wrong, but i get so confused sometimes.

as soon as Black Lives Matter started being referred to as BLM it got confusing for me. you see in the US we have a Bureau of Land Management a/k/a BLM. so. today i'm looking at headlines and thinking what the heck??? why would they even think they can do this. oh. yeah.

BLM: We do not 'and will not euthanize' wild horses

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/loc ... /90514698/

[my5cents]

Full disclosure.... I am very critical of the media because of the horrible job they are doing. My worry is that the general public, in reading incorrect terms, begin to "dumb down".

Some are just funny "Homicide victims rarely talk to police", "Federal Agents Raid gun Shop, Find Weapons", "bugs flying around with wings are flying bugs", and "Diana was still alive hours before she died".

But the real stupid aren't funny, just stupid.

The news piece that talks about the "Robbery" that occurred at the gas station over the weekend while the station was closed. It was a B U R G L A R Y. We've heard that so many times that many people use the term for any type of personal loss as a "robbery". "I was away for the weekend and when I got back I found someone had robbed my apartment."

I guess just like we don't find it strange that on the police TV show after the victim of the homicide is loaded into the ambulance, the ambulance leaves with it's red light and siren on (called code 3) ??? We've been inundated with stupid and we just accept it.

The bank that was "Robbed" and when the robbers fled the media says "the thieves left in ......" The R O B B E R S left, or the "culprets", the "suspects". Thief is a particular type of criminal they steal without violence. Thieves are NOT burglars, they are NOT robbers.

But I digress.....

Today's winner, is in Castanet, but we can't blame or at least give all the blame to Castanet, (at least I don't think so). The story is from Canadian Press, and I suspect when Castanet passes these stories on they also pass on the headline supplied. I don't know if there is a rule that "if you buy the story, you have to use it exactly like it was written including the glaring errors", I don't know.

The story involves a BC company running a mine in Africa. A foreign worker or workers (I gather someone from a third country) had a problem with the way the company treated the "foreign workers" working for the BC company running the mine in Africa.

The main gist of the story is that a BC company operating in a foreign country is being sued in a BC court.

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#177756

The headline..... "REFUGEES sue BC miner"......

Refugee ??? I thought they were foreign workers ?? Where does refugee come into the story.

Maybe the refugee was a robber ??

Does the writer of this story think that anyone/everyone from a foreign country is a "refugee". So, if we have tourists from Australia, for example here on vacation, they are "refugees". Or are just foreign workers refugees ?

I guess the next question is, should Castanet fix stupid when they actually pay for it.

[Glacier]

I was thinking the same thing, but it does say this in the article:

In a judgment released Thursday, the Supreme Court of British Columbia gave the go-ahead for three refugees to proceed with a civil lawsuit against Nevsun Resources, which owns a controlling interest in the Bisha gold mine in the tiny East African country of Eritrea.

So which is it? Foreign workers or refugees??

[my5cents]

I guess the confusing part is, that generally facts in a story should factor into the story.

If I tell you about an incident in a bank where it was robbed and one of the witnesses was a refugee, that doesn't really make sense to mention that.

If I tell you about a house fire and the occupant lost everything and he was a refugee, it factors into the story, since likely the person suffering the loss has already gone through a lot and was just getting his life together and now his house burned down.

If there was some reason to include that the plaintiffs were refugees, then the writer should have explained it.

Children, in telling a story, often add in irrelevant facts, because they don't have the intellect to know what is important to the story and what is not.

Apparently some journalists have the same problem.