Lemmy user SLAMS mainstream media, you will not believe what the comment section said
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Yeah I made c/savedyouaclick in the hope of getting people de-clickbaiting stories, but I was the only poster afaict. I wonder if calling it newssummararies could help.
!savedyouaclick@lemmy.world
Oh I'd be up to help if I could
Maybe a link or two a day
Nah that community name is fine, it just needs to be promoted. Someone else linked some communities where it can be advertised.
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I don't click those any more. I assume they're completely written by AI and not fact-checked in any way. They just suck knowledge out of me instead of adding more.
Exactly. If the headline is garbage, I assume the story is, too. Real journalism that’s worth reading doesn’t need to resort to clickbait.
No other choice than sticking with the few reputable media that still don't do that. Gotta support them so they don't fall into that too.
Sometimes the articles themselves are fine, and it’s just the editorial department that adds the sensational headlines. I don’t know if it’s worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
If the marketing has the power to go over the journalism to change the titles, isn't it a symptom that things are going downward for this media?
Haven't the titles always been traditionally written by someone other that the articles author?
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While we're at it, does anyone on Lemmy hate capitalism? I never see anyone mention it.
And that Trump guy is really not turning out well.
I don't hate it, but it's been allowed to go uncontrolled for too long and it has become cancerous to the successful advancement of society.
Hey does anyone else on Lemmy hate Puppy Kickers?
I think they suck but just curious if anyone else felt that way
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Whenever people ask this question, I do this one thing.
NPR and the BBC still aren't doing that.
- I think the Associated Press is in the clear here.
- Seems Reuters so far is good too.
- And The Guardian
- Mother Jones
- ProPublica
- Ars Technica for tech news
- The Conversation (always written by subject-matter experts)
- Deutsche Welle
- Etc.
Thankfully there are still a lot of amazing news sources that have held onto their integrity. Click here to see even more. Number 17 will surprise you!
That's a very good list. I just threw out the first couple that came to mind, but it is worth calling out the organizations that are still trying to do real journalism.
I give small sustaining donations to NPR, ProPublica, and The Guardian. I hope to add a few more when I can.
There’s something I hate more than clickbaity headlines, click here to find out!!
it's infuriating
Readers hate this one simple trick -- Do this every day!
I hate them. I hate that everything is always trying to sell you something or trick you into generating profit somehow. It makes me want to burn down a bank.
I miss objective news in general
Everything has a spin on it, even if it's subtle
That's why I stopped reading the news. Instead I get my news here and I have to interpret what they mean for me locally. Its extremely bullshit. Now orange man has bit into NPR and PBS. When that institution disappears, I won't have a leg to stand on. I'll be a mindless robot going to work. Suddenly they come and tag one of my balls with a chip because they said they would but nobody was there to tell us.
It’s the news that Starship Troopers and Idiocracy both parodied. Except it’s not future fantasy, it’s real and here now.
MAN THREATENS TO NOT READ NEWS ANYMORE over clickbaity headlines
It’s not new, it’s just adapted to the media format.
Getting people to read the news and the ads between articles is how the game is designed.
Journalism classes has always educated this.
If you had been an adult during a decade or two before the Internet you would know that a headline used to sum up the basics of a story. For example, picking a random 1980s headline: "Six US embassy aides escape from Iran". Nowadays that would be more like, "US admits Iran plot."
I took some journalism classes in the 90’s (and then decided it wasn’t for me), and my SO was a journalist around the same time.
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want to read news
don't want to pay for news
news start to use ads to get money
ads pay for clicks
complain about clickbait news
-- average internet user
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For quite a while, yes.
Anytime I see headlines that say "you won't guess what's next!" "you won't believe this!" or any other variation is a immediate avoid.
I think Lemmy owes itself a savedyouaclick instance.
"news headlines" should be "opinion headlines". I'm going back to Jack Webb from Dragnet..."Just the facts, ma'am.".
Well played. You got me to click.
You won't believe what this person thinks of our headlines
I'm not annoyed by them (I simply don't read them, why would I want to waste my time?), I'm saddened by them.
Edit: that's also the reason why I read so few newspapers/periodicals. And why I pay for them. I want to support quality work.
I'm less annoyed if its technically true and I get to sharpen my media crit skills by making that evaluation after the fact
Could have social media websites
like us
have some system for selecting, maybe voting on, alternative titles.
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Profit above all. Been this way for a long long time.
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