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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Headline News & Feelings

By Seth Yantiss on April 4, 2007 at 08:19 am
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Most of us don’t have time in the day to read all of the details of news stories.  A lot of us get our “knowledge” from headlines. 

Headlines are designed to generate “feelings”. 
Feelings are the left’s best friend.

Decisions based upon “feelings” are often the wrong decisions.  The editors of the MSM know that feelings drive a lot of people to buy their products.

Most people don’t have time to read the whole article, but if the headline generates “feelings” you might buy the paper or watch a little more TV. 

The MSM can control the population to some degree with the wording of a headline. 

I’ve seen more examples of this on this blog than I thought were possible… and this blog doesn’t specialize in exposing this sort of manipulation.

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The Whistler

Headline News & Feelings

I don’t get what this post is about?

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

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The Whistler on April 4, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Seth Yantiss

Headlines in the news and the feelings that headlines generate…

Sorry… I’m not going for complete clarity in posts… or so it seems.  wink

Seth Yantiss on April 4, 2007 at 12:31 pm
The Whistler

Maybe the problem is I only read the headline?

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

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The Whistler on April 4, 2007 at 01:20 pm
Seth Yantiss

Oh… sorry, I missed the /sarcasm tag…

I’ve been too serious lately the Whistler… I missed the obvious…

smile

Seth Yantiss on April 4, 2007 at 05:25 pm
The Whistler

well I didn’t use the sarcasm tag, usually I’m not so subtle that I need to.  smile

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

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The Whistler on April 4, 2007 at 05:28 pm
MikeAdamson

I think of awful pop songs when I read that headline.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear
*Edmund Burke*

MikeAdamson on April 4, 2007 at 05:36 pm
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