This is a classic strategy that tabloids and reporters use when there is a hot topic and they want to be the first to break a story or just to cash in on it
A good example is pretty much ANYTHING to do with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
So these two are currently hot property and the tabloids are working themselves up into an absolute frenzy about the potential of them getting married so literally any chance they get they run a headline with either name in it and a tenuous link to an engagement. Stories include (but are not limited to)
The list goes on and on and the media love it as EVERY time they mention the two of them and the word ‘Engagement’ or Marriage they get a surge of readers and advertising space paid for. As and when these two do get married (hey it’s on the cards!) I can’t even imagine what the headlines will be about the wedding, married life, royal duties, kids, jealousy, infighting, relatives and goodness knows what else but you know that this is going to run and run!
This is just one example of Fake Headlines but they often make up stories and use the phrase ‘a source’, ‘a close friend’ or ‘people close to them’ to justify printing what is basically a load of lies (or made up by the reporter).
Next time you read any of those phrases in an article take a step back and think is this just made up for ‘clicks’ or has ‘a source’ really just sold out ‘a close friend’.
Maxwell
Chief Admin
