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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is most definitely an article. Would you like to read the headline again, but longer?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aside from clickbait, that's probably my most hated trend with news articles nowadays. We noticed something, said a vaguely interpretable sentence then wrote that sentence in about as many ways as we could then posted it. It just feels so damn lazy, and such a waste of time. I could have just read the headline and moved on.

These news sites need to drop the article format and adopt a more blurb like style where instead of a user needing to click through a headline, it's just a headline and like 2 sentences about the thing the headline is talking about. And then for further context click through but that's it really.