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This is so bad. Words are losing their common meaning due to journalists freewheeling attitude towards clickbaiting. At least with "Bat-boy" stories of yore,
by mc32 5y ago
This is so bad. Words are losing their common meaning due to journalists freewheeling attitude towards clickbaiting.
At least with "Bat-boy" stories of yore, you _knew_ it was made up entertainment and "serious" journalists would not touch such with a ten foot pole, if they could avoid it.
- klyrs 5y agoIs it that bad? Or is "retracing steps" a commonly used metaphor for analyzing data at hand to ascertain a fuller picture about where something has been / what it has done? Headlines have always been like this. Before clickbait, front-page headlines were optimized to earn quarters at newspaper boxes.