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Re:Endless Doom Scroller by Robotbeat on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @09:56AM (#24049985)
The problem with that is we are bombarded with at least 10 times as many headlines as articles can possibly be read. Even within an article, there will be links to other headlines. Look at a news front page and there are enough headlines immediately in view that would take an hour or five to read through. There’s no way to “get ahead” by RTFA, and shaming people for only having seen a misleading headline is attacking the victim, not the perpetrator. (You’re not doing that here, but I often see it done online.)

We MUST start shaming media organizations that publish bullcrap headlines. This is almost entirely the editors’ fault, BTW. The reporters don’t have control over the headline.

Re:Endless Doom Scroller by ontifica on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @10:17AM (#24050202)
If news media is for profit, news media will naturally use the most engaging headline to beat out competition. There is no solution to this problem unless news is regulated or not for profit. You won't 'shame' an entire industry into changing something they've been doing for centuries.
Re:Endless Doom Scroller by Robotbeat on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @10:40AM (#24050446)
Beats shaming humans for doing something they’ve been doing since the invention of writing: reading titles before reading books or articlesz