Hasn't this already happened? Who gets taken in by clickbait headlines any more? We all follow @savedyouaclick on Twitter to get the best bits, and ignore every

Hasn't this already happened? Who gets taken in by clickbait headlines any more? We all follow @savedyouaclick on Twitter to get the best bits, and ignore everything else. The second problem is that he clickbait style of story is eminently easy to algorithmize. What will happen when there are a million websites running algorithmically generated stories all pulled from each other? The biggest problem for journalism posed by the Web is that it has made advertising almost worthless. It used to be that newspapers could charge enough for ads to pay journalists decent wages. Now the Web has both vastly increased the supply of advertising space, which even with modestly increased demand has driven the price down by a lot, and allowed advertisers to measure the effect their ads have (spoiler: not much) which has also driven down the price. Partial paywalls have helped some venues, and that may be the way journalism goes in the end, but subscribers weren't enough to pay for newspapers and it's difficult to see how they are going to be enough to pay for websites that perform the same function and so have most of the same costs.