• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If a headline is click bait, you can’t really expect the rest of the article to be honest and straightforward either. If that’s not convincing enough, you can always find a few websites that rate news sites and see what they have to say about them.

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      1 year ago

      Journalists write articles, editors write headlines. These two roles have different motivations, but it doesnt mean a editor making a clikbait title detracts from a reporter’s journalist integrity.

      Reporting can 100% be clean and fair even with bad headlines.

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          1 year ago

          People’s habits have nothing to do with a journalist’s quailty of work. A fine article not read is still a fine article.

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            1 year ago

            A fine article is less likely to have a clickbait headline than a clickbait article is. So it’s a decent correlation.

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            1 year ago

            “Reporting can 100% be clean and fair even with bad headlines.”

            This is the part I disagree with. People are very often misled by bogus clickbait headlines.