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BBCs headlines leave much to be desired. They dont want to summarise the article in the headline, they merely want to pique the readers interest.
by billfruit 5y ago
BBCs headlines leave much to be desired. They dont want to summarise the article in the headline, they merely want to pique the readers interest.
- mhh__ 5y agoThey also edit them to something more detailed after a few hours sometimes, slightly devious.
- arpa 5y agoIf anything, headlines like these make me avoid clicking. My attention is a scarce resource. I'm not going to read through a longform (unless it's from damninteresting.com - but I purposefully go there for longform trivia) if I have no idea of the longforms' relevance to my current interests.
- 0xTJ 5y agoI usually try to avoid clicking them out of spite. I'm sure that they've found that it overall increases viewership, otherwise they wouldn't do it, but I hate that this is what news is now.