> It's almost as though there's another force at work, silently undermining reason, relentlessly overwhelming rational discourse. There is - it's called the pr

> It's almost as though there's another force at work, silently undermining reason, relentlessly overwhelming rational discourse. There is - it's called the profit motive, and in journalism produces the incentive to write clickbait. This is pretty well established, I don't understand why you have had negative experiences broaching this as discussions of clickbait happen all the time online.