Opinion

Media misleading all with headlines

Posted September 06, 2015 12:00 am

Media should be ashamed of themselves for headlines which are misleading while technically accurate. Example would be in the Sept. 1 Herald which on Page 3 reads: Lisle village clerk charged with third DUI. This maybe is technically correct but the latest of his DUIs was 30 years ago.

In another media outlet it reads: 150 messages classified on Clinton server. (Later it notes that none were regarded classified at the time they were received.)

The problem with these type of headlines is for many Americans that is all they read and immediately make an opinion based on those headlines. A better or fairer headline should have read: "Lisle village clerk charged with DUI" and "Email messages classified later not at time of receipt," i.e. which by the way some media did say.

Larry Eichman

Addison

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