'Duck Dynasty,' 'American Idol' Suffer Big Ratings Drops in Return
Both stories appeared within an hour of one another and both were sourced to the Yahoo TV news site. So what is a person supposed to think? If you click the links and read both stories, you will see that the actual facts are pretty much the same.
The difference, as usual, is a question of the writer's or editor's point of view. In the news game, and it is a game, it never hurts to talk out of both sides of your mouth. Covering both the pro Duck Dynasty crowd as well as it's detractors, it's easy to see what the goal of these two articles were. And that is to get the maximum number of people to read the article. After all, ad rates are based on how many people view/read a story and with headlines like this, you get both the pro and con sides reading basically the same story.
Where Yahoo messed up was to post both stories within site of one another. Of course that makes a person want to find out both sides of the story, but imagine the disappointment when they found out the story was basically the same. Perhaps others don't care at all, but I tend to read the Yahoo newsfeed with a jaundiced eye. Too many things don't add up there for me.
