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Would this be better titled "Attention Grabbing Headlines Considered Harmful" ? </snark> I understand that on a website you want to keep people clicking throu

by lfowles 12y ago

Would this be better titled "Attention Grabbing Headlines Considered Harmful" ? </snark> I understand that on a website you want to keep people clicking through and viewing ads, but I wouldn't mind if I could get articles condensed to a dry, informative, twitter size bite. (Edit: After browsing local news and national news, I seem to have the wrong mental idea about _most_ headlines. Double or triple the length of something like "Investigators find 32,000 emails in IRS probe" and I'll be even more satisfied.)

D-Coder 12y ago
Or, "Death of Journalism Predicted!"
ioddly 12y ago
Hah. I just realized "Considered Harmful" was clickbait in programming/tech communities long before we had "one weird trick" and listicles. I always hated that title, and wondered if the authors had even read the original.