On Tue, 30 May 2017 10:26:25 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:

Tim Wrote in message:
"I question whether "John Q. Public" reads any serious newspapers,
whether the paper or the on-line edition. "
....

You're probably right and the papers know that, so they state the opening header in such a manner to sway a public opinion, which does (in many cases) provides the intended result.


Journalism nowadays has taken on the National Enquirer style of
misleading readers.

That right there is the truth. And, the major media has adopted the grocery line style of headlines.