"Shakira Nearly Attacked by a Sea Lion"- framing

Today I was looking through Twitter and came across a post from People that said “Shakira Nearly Attacked by a Sea Lion in South Africa”. When I read that I obviously thought the attack was really server, thinking she got torn apart by this large animal. I then clicked on the article to read the whole story and saw a pretty picture of Shakira sitting on the rocks relaxed by a ocean and a close up of her hand with a small bite mark (the size of a pea) on her wrist. I was shocked because the way they framed the story it sounded like she was brutally attacked, I thought she would have open wounds and bruises everywhere when all they showed was a very small bite mark on her hand. Reading the article she goes on to say

“Suddenly one of them jumped out of the water so fast and impetuously that it got about one foot away from me, looked me in the eye, roared in fury and tried to bite me….i was paralyzed by fear and couldn’t move.” 

It is funny how authors frame articles to get the readers attention just like this one got my attention. They should have titled this story “Sea Lion Scared Shakira” or “Sea Lion Scare” rather than us all thinking there was a brutal attack. When people tweet out just the title of a news story they need to know how to frame it, because us readers jump to conclusions based on titles.

(http://www.peoplepets.com/people/pets/article/0,,20570181,00.html)