Headlines

In these days of information overload, how many of us see a headline served up to us on one of our devices and take that as the "story".  

Yesterday I saw this headline in bold print:  Gold Coast crash pilot took cocaine in days before collision.  It was referring to the crash of two helicopters on the Gold Coast early last year.  I wonder how many people clicked on the link to read the next, more explanatory and less sensational sentence:  However, an ATSB interim report into the incident concluded that the low concentrations of the drug suggested it would unlikely to have been an "impairment of his psychomotor skills".  That does put a slightly different spin on it.  

I think that in the effort to keep up with what is a constant barrage of information, we may sometimes be missing out on more and important details.