Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism

Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by lfowles on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:14PM (#9121056)

Would this be better titled "Attention Grabbing Headlines Considered Harmful" ?

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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.)

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Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by ioddly on Friday February 27, 2015 @04:07PM (#9121367)

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.

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Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by D-Coder on Friday February 27, 2015 @04:00PM (#9121322)

Or, "Death of Journalism Predicted!"

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