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I've sometimes been concerned that headline writing is (metaphorically) subcontracted to buzzfeed everywhere, NYT, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, just about everywher
by hawkice 8y ago
I'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