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>The publishers see it as people just read the headlines and summary on Facebook, then never ever go to the actual web site to read the story. This is going to
by pb7 6y ago
>The publishers see it as people just read the headlines and summary on Facebook, then never ever go to the actual web site to read the story.
This is going to be a hot take but maybe it's because people have been conditioned to think that the articles themselves are often low quality clickbait offering little beyond the headline and stuffed with more ads than content. Quality of journalism and consumer trust in media has been declining for years.
- reaperducer 6y agoI don't disagree that the majority of news web sites are terrible. That's one of the things that drove me back to print subscriptions. But the web sites didn't get to be the way they are because people were visiting them. They got to be the way they are because people stopped visiting them.
- raverbashing 6y agoYeah, the irony of clickbait headlines, which would initially entice the person to go buy the newspaper/magazine is that they ended up making people think the headline was the news
- manicdee 6y agoMore like the headline has nothing to do with the story, and often relies on a particularly convoluted perspective or pun on the actual content.