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[deckardcanine]

Comcast clearly likes headlines that get people to click, even if misleading. The latest: "Transgender Wife Gets 4 Years in Jail." It sounds like the wife got in trouble for being transgendered, but in truth, it's for reckless homicide of her husband. The sex change is 100% incidental to the case.

Anyone else find it rather insensitive?

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[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

It's not just Comcast - it's all journalists. The old eye-grabbing headline trick to get you to read the paper.

The tactic that really sets my blood boiling is on a news broadcast: "Coming up, find out how a woman trapped in a cave for seven months with 18 sex-crazed dwarves managed to beat herself out of captivity with cooked cauliflower!" Five commercial segments later, they still haven't mentioned the story, and at the end it's this 15-second blurb that has no relevance to the sound byte.

It's all about keeping the eyeballs glued to the screen or getting you to click through... for the advertising.

One more reason I'm glad I don't have a TV.

[thatcatgirl.livejournal.com]

I hate that. There's one local station here that I think does it worse than the others. We used to speculate that the earlier a segment was first mentioned, the later it would show up. I'm not entirely confident about the timing, but in general I expect that if a segment is mentioned at the beginning on that news show, it will turn up no earlier than halfway through (good for going off to do something else).