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The framing of the article is that oil companies need to be more concerned about the Chinese buses than about Tesla. It's a simple rhetorical device, not a stat
by twblalock 8y ago
The framing of the article is that oil companies need to be more concerned about the Chinese buses than about Tesla. It's a simple rhetorical device, not a statement that Tesla does not matter.
- hawkice 8y agoI've sometimes been concerned that headline writing is (metaphorically) subcontracted to buzzfeed everywhere, NYT, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, just about everywhere.
- twblalock 8y agoPeople talk about "clickbait" but it's not really new. On a website, or the pages of a paper newspaper, there is a bunch of stuff vying for readers' attention and the headline has always been a way of making stories seem interesting.
- randomsearch 8y agoRecently (thanks to a post on HN) I’ve discovered the Financial Times to be a mature news source that doesn’t generally go in for clickbait.
- trevyn 8y agoReuters as well.
- ekianjo 8y agoI would be very surprised if they dont have a clickbaity machine learning algorithm to optimize headlines for more clicks. That would be a very natural thing to do in this kind of business.
- asdff 8y ago"The Holy Bible" was the first editorialized clickbait title