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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't find that to be a particularly effective heuristic.

[–] NocturnalMorning 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If a headline is click bait, you can't really expect the rest of the article to be honest and straightforward either. If that's not convincing enough, you can always find a few websites that rate news sites and see what they have to say about them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Journalists write articles, editors write headlines. These two roles have different motivations, but it doesnt mean a editor making a clikbait title detracts from a reporter's journalist integrity.

Reporting can 100% be clean and fair even with bad headlines.

[–] freecandy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not when most people just read the headlines, and the headlines are often biased and misleading

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People's habits have nothing to do with a journalist's quailty of work. A fine article not read is still a fine article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A fine article is less likely to have a clickbait headline than a clickbait article is. So it's a decent correlation.

[–] freecandy -3 points 1 year ago

"Reporting can 100% be clean and fair even with bad headlines."

This is the part I disagree with. People are very often misled by bogus clickbait headlines.

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