Opus 2017-198: Headlines: Teaser Headlines

I urge you to not get your news from the headlines.  The link on The Drudge Report said, “Illinois Becomes North America’s Venezuela”.  That got my attention, which was the goal.

I almost skipped over it because the title was so absurd.  Last I heard the people of Illinois were not facing empty grocery stores, a lack of toilet paper and long bread lines.  There are serious differences between the socialist paradise of Venezuela and the Progressive paradise of Illinois.  My curiosity was arouse by the absurdity.  First I checked the link to make sure it wasn’t from the obvious fake news outlets and, since the source was not on the list, I bit.

The teaser headline was not addressed much in the article.  What it was about was an editorial about the economy and something called cryptocurrency.  What is cryptocurrenccy?  Maybe you have heard of bitcoin.  It was educational because he went into the history of government manipulation of paper money but it was not a declaration about Illinois.

Fake link more than fake news but an informative article.

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