Typical pattern: “Scientists find something strange when they look at a common whatever - and it’s not good!”
This kind of crap used to be the style of little blurbs at the side or the bottom of an article, but it’s in the headlines now. Until you click the headline you don’t even really know what the article is about anymore - just the general topic area, with maybe a fear trigger.
Clicking on the headline is going to display ads, but at that point the goal isn’t to get you to buy anything yet, it’s just to generate ad impressions, which the content provider gets paid for regardless of whether you even see the ads. It’s a weird meta-revenue created by the delivery mechanism, and it has altered the substance of headlines, and our expectations of what “headline” even means.
MAN THREATENS TO NOT READ NEWS ANYMORE over clickbaity headlines
Yes, but this has been the case for many years now.
I hate them. I hate that everything is always trying to sell you something or trick you into generating profit somehow. It makes me want to burn down a bank.
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Well played. You got me to click.
Whenever people ask this question, I do this one thing.
I’m not annoyed by them (I simply don’t read them, why would I want to waste my time?), I’m saddened by them.
Edit: that’s also the reason why I read so few newspapers/periodicals. And why I pay for them. I want to support quality work.
Everybody has always been annoyed by them. Since before computers existed; newspaper headlines were the original clickbait and it’s always sucked.
While we’re at it, does anyone on Lemmy hate capitalism? I never see anyone mention it.
And that Trump guy is really not turning out well.
I don’t hate it, but it’s been allowed to go uncontrolled for too long and it has become cancerous to the successful advancement of society.
Hey does anyone else on Lemmy hate Puppy Kickers?
I think they suck but just curious if anyone else felt that way
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No other choice than sticking with the few reputable media that still don’t do that. Gotta support them so they don’t fall into that too.
Sometimes the articles themselves are fine, and it’s just the editorial department that adds the sensational headlines. I don’t know if it’s worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
If the marketing has the power to go over the journalism to change the titles, isn’t it a symptom that things are going downward for this media?
Haven’t the titles always been traditionally written by someone other that the articles author?
I don’t click those any more. I assume they’re completely written by AI and not fact-checked in any way. They just suck knowledge out of me instead of adding more.
Exactly. If the headline is garbage, I assume the story is, too. Real journalism that’s worth reading doesn’t need to resort to clickbait.
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it’s infuriating
Readers hate this one simple trick – Do this every day!
I’m less annoyed if its technically true and I get to sharpen my media crit skills by making that evaluation after the fact
