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Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.
[23] [24] Linguist Geoffrey K. Pullum characterizes this practice as deceptive, noting that the single-quoted expressions in newspaper headlines are often not actual quotations, and sometimes convey a claim that is not supported by the text of the article. [25] Another technique is to present the claim as a question, hence Betteridge's law of ...
Betteridge's law of headlines is about actual headlines, not about hypothetical things that could in principle appear as a headlines. It is also a quip, like Murphy's Law-- in fact, sometimes, there are things that could go wrong but don't go wrong. Geoffrey.landis 20:21, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Betteridge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alice Betteridge (1901–1966), Australian deafblind woman; ... Betteridge's law of headlines
One feature of sensationalistic news is the intensification of language used in the article. [24] The most common use of sensationalist language is in the headlines of news articles. [25] "Slam Journalism" is a term describing the rise of intense, emotionally charged language in headlines, notably the use of the word slam to mean criticize.
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Betteridge's law of headlines, stating that when a headline asks a (yes-no) question, the answer is no. Considered "an old truism among journalists", it was well known before Betteridge wrote about it in 2009. Betz' law, which shows the maximum attainable energy efficiency of a wind turbine, was discovered first by Frederick W. Lanchester.
Gatekeeping as a news process was identified in the literature as early as 1922, [dubious – discuss] though not yet given a formal theoretical name. In his book 'The Immigrant Press', Robert Park explains the process, "out of all of the events that happen and are recorded every day by correspondents, reporters, and the news agencies, the editor chooses certain items for publication which he ...