Has Clickbait Ruined Journalism?

[Marshwarble]

All for the sake of Clickbait we're getting made up stories as if written by five year olds: celebrity X is visiting your town (such as http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/Harrison-Ford-definitely-moving-Canterbury/story-29108672-detail/story.html), stories of large rats which are only little rats held up to the camera and stories of losing all your business details which no one bothers to check.

[Cloverjo]

We can't get the page. What is clickbait?

[Svejk]

Certainly made me click for nothing. When is Harrison Ford moving here then.

[murraymints]

sve..he's in my shed !! lol

[Old_Geezer]

Human interest has always been part of journalism, especially the less serious papers. I think there has been a gradual dumbing down over the years anyway. For example I rarely struggle to understand the New Scientist articles these days, and need to reread them a few times.

[Marshwarble]

What Cloverjo said. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait

[murraymints]

think it is rubbish..misleading/ not quite true story to entice you in

[1ozzy]

clickbait
(on the Internet) content, especially that of a sensational or provocative nature, whose main purpose is to attract attention and draw visitors to a particular web page.

[Svejk]

Journalism does seem to be very poor. I'd put it down to a complete lack of journalistic integrity and an inability to do the most cursory fact checking.
Whether the fact that meeja studies courses have morphed into Marxism for dummies classes, I wouldn't like to say.

[Svejk]

Yes, og, dumbed down sums it up quite nicely.

[Jomlett]

Why Harrison Ford is definitely NOT moving to Canterbury | Canterbury Times http://po.st/1ex224 via @CanterburyTimes

[douglas9401]

Doctors are angry that Harrison Ford isn't moving to Canterbury.

[woofgang]

well those who like such stuff will click, others will ignore...

[hc4361]

Magazines have been using these tactics on their covers for years to encourage people to buy.
Certain tabloids have done so, too. Remember the double decker found on the moon?

[Marshwarble]

I definitely the story of the Queen giving a Nazi salute was clickbait.