Lies, Damned Lies, And Newspaper Headlines.

The Eureka Reporter has been up to its old tricks again of bait-and-switch.

This time, the front page of the ER’s print edition for May 21st screamed, “Local Activists Seek Peace Tax”. Horrors!!! We’re being taxed to death as it is, and now those darned peacenik hippies want to slam us with another tax! Quick, hold a séance and resurrect Howard Jarvis before it’s too late!

But when you open the print edition to page 3, the reader finds an accurate headline: “Local activists work for non-military tax fund”. And it turns out no new taxes are being proposed, notwithstanding the rather clear language of the front page. Instead, there is a proposal—one that has been introduced in the U.S. House Of Representatives every year since 1972—that taxpayers have the option of directing the taxes they pay be used only for non-military uses. The article, in stark contrast with the front-page print headline, is actually reasonably fair and accurate.

Another illustration that one cannot rely on corporate media headlines for facts.

TLC