Be honest. It's a bad habit, since headlines are horribly misleading. I was just recently reading an article headlined: "U.S. taps Canada's oil sands â€" but at an environmental cost". The headline implies the US is destroying precious canada's environment, but if you read the article, it actually cites a U.S. energy bill that said the federal government wouldn't buy unconventional fuel that produces more greenhouse gases than conventional oil, thereby preventing it from tapping into more of Canada's oil reserves. It is South Africans and other countries which are tapping into more than Americans. In fact, it is Canada that is trying to change the US policy so that the US will tap into more of its oil. The headline, therefore, should read: "Canada seeks US to tap oil sands â€" but at an environmental cost".
I just hope people read entire articles and not the headlines. There are too many examples of this misleading journalism to list.
Here is the article, btw: http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/837751.html
This goes with the old addage "don't judge a book by its cover"
No, I don't really even pay attention to headlines.
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