Interesting piece:
www.mediamatters.org
On the 25th February 2024, CNN published a piece on electric vehicles explaining that sales in the United States, which are trending upward and reached record levels in 2023, are not as high as analysts once predicted they’d be. The next day, a new headline appeared above the article that radically altered the main takeaway of the story without any new information added.
Here are the two headlines, just a day apart.
To support the new, negative framing, CNN also added a line to the piece: 'But the EV market has nevertheless become a major disappointment.' The main message of the article was that although some automakers are currently scaling back production, EV sales are still up 40% from the same quarter a year before and hit a record last year. However, with the new changes, the emphasis shifted to the disappointment arising from the mismatch of expectations and reality.
The news is supposed to tell us what's happening in the world. It doesn't. It tries as hard as it can to find something that's going wrong, even when things are going right.
CNN changed a headline about EV sales from a success story to a failure
On February 25, CNN published a piece on electric vehicles outlining the reasons that sales, which are trending upward and reached record levels in 2023, are not as high as analysts once predicted they’d be. The next day, a new headline appeared above the article that radically altered the main...
On the 25th February 2024, CNN published a piece on electric vehicles explaining that sales in the United States, which are trending upward and reached record levels in 2023, are not as high as analysts once predicted they’d be. The next day, a new headline appeared above the article that radically altered the main takeaway of the story without any new information added.
Here are the two headlines, just a day apart.
To support the new, negative framing, CNN also added a line to the piece: 'But the EV market has nevertheless become a major disappointment.' The main message of the article was that although some automakers are currently scaling back production, EV sales are still up 40% from the same quarter a year before and hit a record last year. However, with the new changes, the emphasis shifted to the disappointment arising from the mismatch of expectations and reality.
The news is supposed to tell us what's happening in the world. It doesn't. It tries as hard as it can to find something that's going wrong, even when things are going right.
