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Everything is clickbait and too long now. It used to be a good newspaper told you everything you needed to know if the heading and/or the first few paragraphs.
by rr808 3y ago
Everything is clickbait and too long now. It used to be a good newspaper told you everything you needed to know if the heading and/or the first few paragraphs. Now you have to skim read a whole article to find the only sentence that has useful information. That is even if there is any.
- suprjami 3y agoWow, you're right! From being on the school newspaper (nerd) with a ruthless English teacher as editor, I learnt the older style you just described. Actually I learnt it by having large swathes of my text highlighted and deleted with an instruction "rewrite this". I didn't realise how bad modern news is at this until you pointed it out. It's fairly common these days for me to start reading an article but still have little idea what it's about beyond the clickbait headline when I'm a third or a quarter way through an enormous read, so I just give up and leave. I wonder when and why this changed?
- xtracto 3y agoThere are a couple og good Chrome extensions that use GPT to summarize websites. Gpt3.5 is good enough, so it's pretty cheap. Now I only need one that actually overwrites the text.
- teddyh 3y agoIncentives have changed. The old style wanted to make the reader feel informed about many issues quickly when reading through most of the newspaper, making people want to buy the next newspaper. The new style wants people to go to, and then spend as much time as possible in, every individual article, in order to maximize retention numbers for ad revenue for that article.