Stupid Misleading Headlines at Ars Technica: Round 2

Jonathan Gottfried runs with this headline: “Don’t bet on “Linsanity”: US seizes online gambling domain over sports wagers”. Aside from the headline of the post and the link to the very article you are reading in the side bar, “Linsanity” is never mentioned again. Actually the post is just about the U.S. seizing Bodog.com. I…

Jonathan Gottfried runs with this headline: “Don’t bet on “Linsanity”: US seizes online gambling domain over sports wagers”. Aside from the headline of the post and the link to the very article you are reading in the side bar, “Linsanity” is never mentioned again.

Actually the post is just about the U.S. seizing Bodog.com. I would assume Ars went with the headline to drive pageviews making the weak connection that Bodog is/was about sports betting — but really that’s pretty lame.

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