The editorial/psychological trademark of the Times is to write headlines that make the point of a piece of news coverage LESS clear than it otherwise would be
And less interesting
What is even the point of this?
It’s a newspaper for sophisticated people, obviously. 🙄
Alt: GIF of SpongeBob driving a luxury car wearing a monocle and a top hat
Headline is sub optimal. Subheadings not terrible though.
Note the chosen use of the mild term “misinformation” when others – aka pretty much everyone else in the world bar Trump supporters – would use “lies”.
We live in a clickbait world. You have to get the full article to find out what on Earth they're talking about!
"a hail of misinformation" is just less accurate than the more common Irish expression for what we watched, "a shower of shite"
You have to understand, the censors at the times administer terrible electric shocks if a writer suggests liberals have the better case in any way
“And more!” Yeah, way to undersell. What the fuck