The Winter Games go viral with intrigue about ski jumpers getting below-the-belt injections—but no Olympians in Milan Cortina have been caught with anything. Is it a scandal or just clickbait mania? https://t.co/t0jhQhApYN ...

RT Nina 🐙 Byzantina (@NinaByzantina)This is a great little case study on how the media works.The claim: HALF OF THE WOMEN IN JAPAN WERE SAMURAI! GROUNDBREAKING!To ensure that you’re thinking that they were warriors in the battlefield, The Independent shows you a nice photo of samurai armor, on top of what you already know about the samurai from modern pop culture. At this stage, you’re primed to wipe your tears thinking about girl power in unexpected places (or get angry about). And, of course, many people ...

So, who here will read the headline of a news article and then go and tell someone, "Oh, yeah. I saw that on the news." I'm sure there are more than a few guilty parties here. And no judgment, it doesn't even seem like the wrong thing to do. More often than not, the most important piece of a news article is given away in the headline.Anyways, way back in the day of print newspapers, it didn't really matter if you read the whole piece or not. The article was right underneath the headline, and you were kind o ...