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Here's 1 reason why I won't read your drivel

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by BurnsWhenIPee, Oct 3, 2018.

  1. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    The "things we learned" are typically "things we observed." And the things we observed (1. State U's offensive line sucks) are things we already had learned long before.
     
  2. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I'm not talking about the clickbaity slideshow-type things that are almost always pure garbage.

    My local rag covers the local D-I college with mostly this type of "analysis," with previews being "5 things to watch," then gamers being "5 reasons why" and folos of "3 things we learned."

    Then it all gets done again the same way next week.
     
  3. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    So they ever use even numbers?
     
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  4. boundforboston

    boundforboston Well-Known Member

  5. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    That's one way to look at it, but shouldn't newspapers be above that? Do all the headlines now have to sound like an ESPN Radio show going into a commercial?
     
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  6. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

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  7. cake in the rain

    cake in the rain Active Member

    The New York Times and Washington Post have popularized the two-sentence headline.
    Even those "prestige" papers do stuff today that would have been considered shameless, Buzzfeed-style clickbait only a few years ago.

    Standards evolve. Not necessarily for the better, but they evolve.
     
  8. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Yes. It's the reason headlines exist.
     
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  9. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    As long as ad revenue remains driven by page views, it is necessary to give the reader a reason to click. Until reader behavior changes and that strategy no longer works, it is necessary to the survival of the enterprise. Every dollar counts.
     
  10. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Can't wait until we see, "Mueller announces results of investigation. You won't believe who's going to jail"

    If that's what is needed to keep the lights on this business, just shut it down.
     
  11. Doc Holliday

    Doc Holliday Well-Known Member

    I love being the board degenerate.
     
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  12. KJIM

    KJIM Well-Known Member

    At least it wasn’t “5 things coaches don’t want you to know.”
    Or
    “This happened during Friday’s game.”

    I hate it so much. I never click and am so glad I’m out of the business.

    Yesterday, my best friend did it. Sent me three photos of a baby grand and said “this happened yesterday.”
    I was supposed to guess the rest, I suppose.
     
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