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Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by busterarm on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:09PM (#9121018)
Back in the bad old days of "traditional journalism", you could either let this kind of crap hit your perception filter or, failing that, find a real person responsible to go bash over the head.

Now that we can't keep this stuff out of sight anymore, we at least need the virtual equivalent of going and bashing someone over the head back.

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Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by dageshi on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:35PM (#9121164)
It's actually remarkably easy to filter it out. You're doing it right now by reading HN. Same with sub-reddits on reddit. The clickbait headlines either get re-written to better describe the actual content or are ignored altogether. Better than that you can typically skip visiting the actual piece itself and instead read the comments which are generally more interesting anyway.
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