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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
It’s just information. “Doom and Gloom” is your own emotional response to the information.
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I disagree with that. The way headlines are written certainly tries to flavor the information presented. You have written for a living. You certainly are familiar with how certain words and the manner in which they're phrased can carry connotations, denotations, and inferences.
To wit: our government has recently passed this COVID bill worth $1.9T. Headlines proclaim how thousands will be cut off from these stimulus funds. They infer that is a negative thing--as if these are thousands of households who will now be starving or destitute. However, those who are being cut off from these additional funds are those with incomes between $80-100K--a demographic who most would agree is not hanging on the fringes of food or housing security. While the headlines are factually true, they are certainly phrased in a way to invoke an opinion before the information has been properly presented.