Print your own warning labels to stick on bad journalism

[Newsjock]

http://www.tomscott.com/warnings

It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there's no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.

I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I've been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well.

PDFs of label sheets (in both A4 and US format) are available at the link:
WARNING: This article contains unsourced, unverified information from Wikipedia.
WARNING: This article is based on an unverified, anonymous tipoff.
WARNING: To ensure future interviews with this subject, important questions were not asked.
WARNING: This article is basically just a press release, copied and pasted.
... and lots more

[supernova]

1. Man! If there were a way to hack the web with these...

if you could put a pieces of code over a news source web page with some of these...

FuxNews would be riddled with them.

Hee Hee..

[tridim]

5. GMTA, I've been toying with that idea for a few years now..

There are several ways to overlay transparencies over web pages, the trick is accomplishing it in a client web browser after the page is served.

I'm pretty sure it's impossible unless their advertising system can be hacked/infiltrated/usurped. All illegal and not practical.

An opt-in model would probably work, but then there would be major copyright issues. The articles would have to be parsed, reformatted and re-delivered on a third-party server.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. WARNING: We have exemplary bone structure.

...printing

[thelordofhell]

3. WARNING: Opinion piece being treated as an actual news item.

[kayakjohnny]

4. Warning: Corporation being investigated is same corporation printing this story.

[felix_numinous]

6. Truthiness stickers! nt

[Blue Owl]

7. GRADE "A" PROPAGANDA

I could think of a lot of applications for such a sticker.

[Raineyb]

8. This just gave me an idea for some of the more obnoxious posts I've come across. n/t

[Kalyke]

9. Warning: Front page filled with gossip because corporation

that owns newspaper doesn't want you to know anything important about your world.