• @[email protected]
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    81 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.

    • @freecandy
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      11 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        41 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 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
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          -31 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.