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I nearly skimmed over this line but it's pretty important: "The classifier was trained by the developer using Buzzfeed headlines as clickbait and New York Time
by jplasmeier 10y ago
I nearly skimmed over this line but it's pretty important:
"The classifier was trained by the developer using Buzzfeed headlines as clickbait and New York Times headlines as non-clickbait."
- nerdponx 10y agoBold and incorrect assumption.
- rustyfe 10y agoAlso amusing to me was that Reuters, Politico, and CNBC all scored better than the NYT for the clickbait rating, despite NYT being used as the training data. They wrote headlines more like them than they did.
- TheCowboy 10y agoI think it is likely a (perverse) indication that the NYT is more successfully adapting and competing in the news market. But headlines have always been written with the primary intention of grabbing attention, modern web clickbait style headlines might be another evolution of that approach. I've thought that Times article headlines have been more clickbaity over time. Some articles, especially if they aren't related to current events, are becoming more casual in their voice as well. If they can maintain quality journalism by only sacrificing headline quality, that is probably a good and necessary tradeoff to make.
- Torgo 10y agoNYT is struggling to survive, made more difficult by not wanting to succumb completely to the evolutionary advancements that have made clickbait successful.