Remember that we live in a world where the most clickable headlines make the most money and thus the way the world is represented by the media often isn’t the reality of how things work.
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Remember that we live in a world where the most clickable headlines make the most money and thus the way the world is represented by the media often isn’t the reality of how things work.
With click-driven advertising, if a headline tells too much, there is little incentive to click on the story. Headlines now go through contortions not to tell you what the story says.
Jevin D. West • Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
The shock we’re experiencing now can’t be summarized as present shock, which happens when we become blindly obsessed with the present moment. Nor is it a form of future shock, which happens when we feel that change is taking place too quickly. Instead, the shock we’re feeling today is an affront to our most basic understanding of reality. And the... See more
🏡 Shock and Awe
Conversely, when media is unbundled, which means each article has to justify its own existence in the content-o-sphere, more pressure than most individual stories can bear is put on those individual stories. That’s why so much of what you read today online has an irresistible claim or question in the title that the body never manages to cash in.... See more
James Somers • The Like Button Ruined the Internet
One argument is that pre-internet, journalists had a more reliable source of revenue, enabling them to do more investigative work, and the business model shift to online advertising meant they'd now have to produce popular pieces more frequently.
Erik Torenberg • How the Internet Ate Media
A more plausible explanation is that we are drawn to surprising news, and surprising news is more often bad than good.