• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

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        1 year ago

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

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          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.

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          “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.