Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism

Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by spitfire on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:41PM (#9121195)

Then how, exactly, do The Economist, Laphams quarterly and Monocle stay in business?

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Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by res0nat0r on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:44PM (#9121215)

Different audiences. The Economist costs on Amazon $127/year, and $6.99 for a single issue when I pick up one at the airport.

Most sites using crap attention grabbing headlines need to do so to attract clicks when their user base are ones who scoff at paying anything at all to consume their content.

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Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by spitfire on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:51PM (#9121255)

Which is sort of the point I was trying to get across. Media is bifurcated. If people are sick of free click bait, they're welcome to pay cash, or with attention to ads. If companies can't make money on click bait after a time, they'll stop.

I prefer simple cash myself.

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Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism by gerty on Friday February 27, 2015 @04:10PM (#9121384)

I've been a subscriber of The Economist for years now but I never heard of the other two. Are they comparable to the NY Review of Books in terms of article depth?

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