[Newsbot]

Title: World War 3: China shoots down missiles near North Korea border
Category: Military
Posted By: Freakinoldguy
Date: 2017-09-07 01:47:27
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

Oh look! Clickbait from The Express!

[Freakinoldguy]

And this article is "click bait" how? Seems to me to be a valid piece of reporting on the movements and actions of the Chinese Military and Gov't.

[DrCaleb]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

And this article is "click bait" how? Seems to me to be a valid piece of reporting on the movements and actions of the Chinese Military and Gov't.

The headline. "World War 3". That's the clickbait.

[Freakinoldguy]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

And this article is "click bait" how? Seems to me to be a valid piece of reporting on the movements and actions of the Chinese Military and Gov't.

The headline. "World War 3". That's the clickbait.

Fair enough but given that standard most every headline in the news media could be considered click bait. Maybe I'm old or I must have a broken filter because the WW3 reference was missed and wasn't what brought me to the page. TBH it was the Chinese shooting down the Nork missile part which, is what piqued my interest.

[N_Fiddledog]

The left is worried about WW III in their headlines too. Today, Google news has multiple hysterical headlines concerning one of their poster boy's WW III worries. Here's just one example from the Left's very own CNN.

Elon Musk predicts World War III.

Subsidy boy isn't worried about North Korea though. Artificial Intelligence is what's scaring him.

Whatever...

Personally I'm more against stuff like 'lies of omission' to push a political narrative, such as we can see in pretty much every CBC story than I am against snappy titles.

[N_Fiddledog]

Skynet or the Norks. That's the real question.

Also...I'm not sure Doc is the guy we want representing the horrors of end-times disaster titles. I've heard more than a few from him. Here's a reminder: