Headline inaccuracies

The headline to this article reads, "Inflation rises on wholesale level."

When you read the article, you find that inflation actually fell sharply from 0.5 percent in June to 0.1 percent in July.

It seems the headline writer doesn't know that "inflation" is the rate of increase in prices. Prices did rise (by 0.1 percent) in July. Inflation fell, since the rate of increase in prices fell. The headline would have been correct, albeit still somewhat misleading, if it had read, "Wholesale prices rise." As it is, the headline is completely the opposite of the fact.

Clueless!

This kind of misstatement in headlines is one of my pet peeves.