Click bait is rampant!

[Gunfighter14e2]

To me most of the news on the web these days seems to be just click bait for the numbers. Is it just me or are you guys seeing the same thing? The other thing I'm seeing is the amount of made up B/S many sights are trying to push as fact. Do I just need more meds or what?

 

[Spblademaker]

There is no more news and journalism is dead. It’s all entertainment and political theater.

 

[Srgt. Hulka]

I don’t go to news sites. I don’t watch the news on tv.
Its not news...It’s all bullshit propaganda.

 

[Sean the Nailer]

I've got a particular 'local' news site that I scan once in a while, but when it comes to 'news', I come here. Every day. If something REALLY matter in the great scheme of things, ya'll will be talking about it here.

The thing about the 'news' that sets me off the most is when they start out with "Here's what you need to know..."

When that appears, I just turn it off. I may not be the deepest spoon in the drawer, but I like to do my own thinking for myself. And as to you @Gunfighter14e2 and what you're seeing,,,, yeah I agree. It's all about marketing. Seems every single niche in the universe and somebody's trying to work an angle on it. Just wait till there's adds on your piss-cup next time you gotta give a sample.

HA.

 

[W54/XM-388]

It's a money game.
Honest, real, ethical Journalism is long dead
You are either trying to be a sensationalist to get people to watch / click for money
Or you are trying to manipulate stories and news to help the communists.

Now most news sites go even further and have partnered with some shadowy "market" firms that help push stories and keep track of what generates clicks and rotate things out as they drop in revenue.

I stopped watching TV news over a decade ago because it was all just like hype and the same thing repeated over and over again with more hype each time.

You'll notice some of the more brazen "news" sites like to use capitalized words for extra emphasis on words to get your interest that shouldn't be in capitals.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

TV has been dead in this home the day after the wife passed away. I get all of my quality/truth news from Ham radio, as I don't trust most things on the net anymore at all. What I find interesting is how the same story (made up or otherwise) is captioned at different "News" outlets. These days fox is just as bad or worst than cnn or any of the rest of the presenting lairs.

 

[Spblademaker]

I get all my news from @ArmyJerry. And it appears that I’m always lacking ammo.

 

[Unknown]

I might click on something, but if it wants me to click again to get the story, I'll just leave their site and google the story. I don't do click bait, nor will I wait long for things to load. I figure if I kept track of all the time I would have otherwise waited for things to load, toward the end of my life, I will regret having lost the 2.659 days (or whatever it is) worth of time I would have waited for things to load. Same thing applies to reading idiotic responses to postings...just like the one you are currently reading.

 

[M8541Reaper]

Online media deals in views/clicks, so that’s how they make their money (imbedded advertising based on traffic). The clickbait titles are designed to elicit an emotional reaction so you’ll click it or share it with another who will click or share.

Every entity does it now because it’s the easiest way to increase traffic. The only way it will end is by doing away with social media.

The biggest issue I’ve seen with the spread of fake news comes comes from the generation that didn’t grow up with the internet. It’s always the grandparents or aunts/uncles sharing/forwarding the most retarded of shit, just like back when email chains/mass forwards were a thing.

However the design of the fake news and attraction of it is usually designed/orchestrated by the generation that grew up with the internet. Everyone is to blame for the spread of this nonsense and all social media, and the internet for entertainment purposes, needs to end.

Frequency and content will only get worse.

 

[Inifinty]

Elizabeth Hurley is on the front page of Fox news in a new low cut top every week and you're bitchin?

Who needs news when there are bewbs to wonder upon!

Truth is the news' job is to keep us ignorant, redirected, and stupid.

 

[Maser]

It's funny how anytime you call someone out for using click bait titles, they're only excuse they have is to say that it's not click bait, but rather marketing.

 

[RTH1800]

I like reading a headline and guessing how it will be twisted to be Trump’s fault. No matter the article it always ends up going there.

 

[M8541Reaper]

It's funny how anytime you call someone out for using click bait titles, they're only excuse they have is to say that it's not click bait, but rather marketing.

It’s the same thing at this point. Click bait has been around since the beginning of commerce.

 

[ArmyJerry]

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

I've always loved top heavy Asian

 

[hermosabeach]

The BBC app is consistent.

 

[Dunraven]

Refer to Ned Beatty in 'Shooter': "Truth is what I say it is".