![]() This outrageously deceptive headline struck a chord with the self-declared "centrists" (orthodox neoliberals to give them a more accurate description) and the ever-reactionary #FBPE Twitter echo chamber. June 2018 saw a truly egregious examples of rage sharing with over 31,000 people sharing a grotesquely misleading headline in the (supposedly left-liberal) Independent that brazenly cherry picked highly selective quotations from a Jeremy Corbyn speech about trade policy to portray him as some kind of bonkers hard-right anti-immigrant Brextremist. Hundreds of Biffers rage shared the article and spewed bigoted badly-spelled diatribes in the comments without even bothering to read the article and clocking that it was a ridiculously obvious spoof which included quotes from people like "Dr Touchi" from the prestigious "University of South Thurrock"! I'll come to the two desperately misleading anti-Corbyn headlines later, but just to illustrate that rage sharing articles without reading them is not a new phenomenon, just consider the fact that in 2014 the extreme-right hate group Britain First shared a spoof story about the Essex villages of High Easter and Good Easter being forced to change their names by pesky Muslims and lefties. This behaviour is "rage sharing", and mainstream media publications are cashing in on it big time with absolute torrents of shares and clicks (the currency of online journalism). Some of the most mega-viral articles of 2018 have been astoundingly misleading anti-Corbyn headlines that are completely contradicted within the body of the article, but literally tens of thousands of people became so outraged by the deceptive headlines that they shared without even bothering to read the article and check that the headline is justified. It was a time to fine-tune the penalty kill, too, so the 22-year-old buzzed around the defensive zone like a gnat and disrupted passes, got in shooting lanes, poked pucks out of the end zone with a jutting stick and smothered the exasperated power-play pointmen.It's been known for a long time that headlines are the most important part of a news story.Įven in the time before social media it was obvious that far more people would see the newspaper headlines (on newsagent shelves, or on newspaper reviews on the TV, or on the canteen table, or on the next week's chip wrappers) than would ever actually read the contents of the article.īut since the advent of social media, headlines have become even more important because there are loads of people out there who will share articles without even bothering to read them first (especially via Twitter retweets), and other people who are so fact-averse that they'll form extreme political judgements based on the headline of the article that they've clearly not even bothered to read. After all, practice wasn’t just a time to gain confidence on the power play. ![]() Was that too much to ask? It was for Eriksson Ek, who wasn’t having it. They wanted to simply breeze through practice, gear down and get out of the rink so they could enjoy Florida’s sunny, refreshing weather. In practice sometimes, it’s like, ‘Come on, just leave me alone already.’” On Wednesday, just 15 hours after Eriksson Ek suffocated a couple Florida Panthers into losing their absolute minds, all Dumba and the rest of the Wild’s two power-play units wanted to do was zip the puck around the offensive zone and feel good about themselves. He’s physically imposing, and that just annoys the heck out of you. “You just want to slash him across the head,” Dumba said, shaking his head. Matt Dumba adores Joel Eriksson Ek, but man, did the Wild defenseman want to plunk the center across the melon during an afternoon practice at Tampa’s Amalie Arena on Wednesday and then use that, as one person quipped, “goofy, dopey,” almost expressionless face like a punching bag the way Eriksson Ek’s opponents do on a nightly basis.
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