Dr Mumbo

World killer threatens to destroy Earth (and Telegraph’s journalistic credibility)

When Mamamia declared last month that clickbait was dead, it would appear that The Daily Telegraph didn’t get the memo

Here’s how it presented this story about an asteroid on Facebook today…

asteroid daily tele clickbait

Source: Facebook

And if the reader can get past the incomprehensible headline

telegraph asteroid headline

… they will finally discover that the “world killer” will pass more than 25m kilometres away. Which is 65 times further away than the Moon.

telegraph asteroid distance

And that the asteroid was discovered 16 years ago.

Well, done everyone.

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