• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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      Damn. I’m taking stock of everything we’ve lost in the headline:

      • no reference to “slammed,” “burned,” or other intense attack words
      • accurate summary of the situation
      • nothing overstated
      • no key details left out
      • isn’t a listicle
      • nothing inviting the reader to see more by promising the rest of the headline in the article, none of that saved-you-a-click shit

      My god, this might actually be good honest journalism!

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        They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases.

        So crappy journalism.

        Edit Apparently a lo of people have mentioned this here. I simply didn’t read far enough.

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          They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases.

          So crappy journalism.

          I’m starting to think that link aggregators like the Threadiverse software and Reddit should keep a log of headlines, or at least headlines that they see, because it’s a real issue for discussion on those sites. Like, maybe check and update at a geometrically-increasing interval (at submission time, after 1 hour, after 2 hours, after 4 hours, after 8 hours, etc).

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      According to authorities, the Rhesus monkeys were on their way to a testing facility in Florida

      “Florida Man’s Outbreak Monkeys on the Rampage in Mississippi”

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      If you go back and re-read the article, you’ll find it’s been edited, and now has no mention of any diseases and says the monkeys weren’t infectious. So I think it was clickbait, after all.