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Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by blumkvist on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:21PM (#9121094)
Majority of journalism has been employing those tactics forever. Stupid, misinformed articles because you have to crank out copy to fill the page before the press starts clamping? Please, don't start to be self-righteous now.
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Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by cortesoft on Friday February 27, 2015 @04:12PM (#9121391)
Seriously... have people not heard of Yellow Journalism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
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Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by erok on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:34PM (#9121157)
I like comparing this idea to Ricky Gervais' movie "The Invention of Lying". To think about the first person to lie in a news headline... It's just hilarious.
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