Does this article violate Betteridge's law of headlines? Learn how you should approach the articles you read

Betteridge’s law of headlines states that “any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no”. It has also been called Davis’ law or just ‘the journalistic principal’. In an article published in February 2009, Betteridge says that the reason journalists use question marks in headlines is because they probably do not have the facts to back the story up, but still want it published.

Betteridge was not the first person to comment on this. In 2004 Andrew Marr commented that a headline that ends in a question mark probably means that the story is being over-sold. In his opinion it would more often-than-not be a scare story that will attempt to turn a mediocre bit of reporting into a national controversy or national panic.

According to Marr, if a reader really wants to know what is going on in a newspaper, there is a specific way to approach it: If the headline ends in a question mark, try to answer ‘no’. An example of this is: “Is this the real face of the youth of America?” A sensible reader would answer with a ‘no’.

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