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shraby

(21,946 posts)
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:51 AM Jul 2016

Misleading headlines. Unless it's in LBN, the headline of a post is provided by the one posting.

They have the option to make a group, a law, a person, bad or good, or disparage the Democratic party.
There were two postings today about Medicaid/Medicare fraud where the headlines made one think the recipients of the services were defrauding the government, and in both cases it was the provider of the services who also provided the fraud.
Listen up posters, make the headline reflect the event. Call the spade a spade IN the headline.

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Misleading headlines. Unless it's in LBN, the headline of a post is provided by the one posting. (Original Post) shraby Jul 2016 OP
Not always--I've posted things in GD 2016 and GD (and elsewhere) that use the newspaper or magazine MADem Jul 2016 #1

MADem

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1. Not always--I've posted things in GD 2016 and GD (and elsewhere) that use the newspaper or magazine
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:59 AM
Jul 2016

article header as the subject line. Many people do this.

If the headline is disparaging Democrats, then perhaps the very SOURCE of the information is the problem. And that's a different issue altogether.

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